Introduction
In 2011, Chiba University Graduate School of Nursing in Japan started a new program for end-of-life care in
nursing. As founding faculty of the program, we started philosophical, theoretical, and empirical examinations
of end-of-life care and nursing roles. Through this effort, we recognized the lack of precise definitions
of the meaning of end of life and end-of-life care, and, consequently, nurses’ practice and nursing roles in
end-of-life care are left for interpretation of each nurse. The purpose of this article is to report our work to
define ‘‘end-of-life care’’ as a framework for our program and to explore roles of nurses in end-of-life care
from perspectives of nursing ethics.
Introduction
In 2011, Chiba University Graduate School of Nursing in Japan started a new program for end-of-life care in
nursing. As founding faculty of the program, we started philosophical, theoretical, and empirical examinations
of end-of-life care and nursing roles. Through this effort, we recognized the lack of precise definitions
of the meaning of end of life and end-of-life care, and, consequently, nurses’ practice and nursing roles in
end-of-life care are left for interpretation of each nurse. The purpose of this article is to report our work to
define ‘‘end-of-life care’’ as a framework for our program and to explore roles of nurses in end-of-life care
from perspectives of nursing ethics.
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