Cancer nursing
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Oncology nurses routinely encounter ethical dilemmas when caring for advanced cancer patients, particularly concerning prognosis-related communications. Nurses experience uncertainty and barriers to providing quality end-of-life care; thus, more information is needed about recognizing and managing these dilemmas and to clarify their role in these situations. ⋯ Findings reveal new information about ethical dilemmas encountered by nurses and strategies for improving end-of-life communications with advanced cancer patients.
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Patients are experts of their own symptoms and worries, but tend not to express their concerns spontaneously in the consultation. Even when emotions are brought up, they are discussed briefly. ⋯ Choice may be a useful clinical tool. Use of Choice might aid cancer patients in handling their emotions.