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SUBMITTER: Testoni I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287675 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Testoni Ines I Wieser Michael Alexander MA Kapelis Dafni D Pompele Sara S Bonaventura Marino M Crupi Robert R
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 20200511 5
Unclear communication of inauspicious prognoses may disorientate both patients and their relatives, drastically jeopardizing the planning of palliative care. This paper considers the issue of truth-telling in the communicative problems of nurses and students of nursing with terminally ill patients. The fundamental objective is the analysis of the difficulties related to the lack of truth-telling and how it might impact their professional and personal lives. A qualitative study was realized, invo ...[more]