Nurses’ responsibility to alleviate suffering resonates with the philosophy of hospice care and palliative
care. A difference is that nursing care to alleviate suffering is meant for all individuals, families, and communities
who need nursing care and it is not limited to only people who have terminal-stage cancer or who
have symptoms due to underlying diseases. The Code of Ethics by JNA specifically states that nurses ought
to provide care to assist people to live fully throughout their life until the end, and it does not draw an
artificial line determining the time to shift from care to live to end of life.