商品簡介
Dunphy, a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care in the UK, helps palliative care professionals improve their communication with patients. She uses case studies to illustrate the relationship; the characteristics of professionals, such as confidence and courtesy; assessment skills; communicating about diagnosis, treatment, and confirmation of a poor prognosis; understanding the impact of serious illness; ethical issues in communication, including autonomy, collusion, futility of treatment, euthanasia, and truth telling; advance care planning; breaking bad news; and the dying phase. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
