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"What should I say?" — qualitative findings on dilemmas in palliative care nursing
Author(s)	Pam McGrath, Patsy Yates, Michael Clinton
Journal title	The Hospice Journal, vol 14, no 2, 1999
Pages	pp 17-34
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Terminal care ; Nursing ; Nurses ; Communication ; Patients ; Research Reviews ; Australia.
Annotation	The nursing literature suggests that talking and listening to patients about issues associated with death and dying is both important and difficult, and may be improved with training. This discussion presents the results of recent nursing research to confirm and elaborate on this theme. In this research, participants touched on many central issues in communicating with patients that included articulating a sense of discomfort and inadequacy about the whole process, detailing the innumerable blocks to open communication (e.g. interference, denial, unrealistic optimism, resistance, collusion, and anger), and sharing their sense of success and failure. The insights of nurses participating in this research testify to the ongoing need to prioritise the development of nursing skills and support for palliative care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990723221 A
Classmark	LV: LQ: QTE: U: LF: 3A:6KC: 7YA
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