The Academy recognizes frontline staff provide essential care to patient considering or completing medical aid in dying.


The right to self-determination: Recipients of care have the moral and legal right to determine what will be done with and to their own person; to be given accurate, complete, and understandable information in a manner that facilitates an informed decision. From ANA’s 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses

An Enactment of an Aid-in-dying Day.

This staged enactment is designed to familiarize staff with the typical aid-in-dying procedure.

8 minutes

Teaching and supporting best practices for the care of patients considering or completing medical aid in dying.

Donate to the Academy