Social Workers Breaking Bad News: The Essential Role of an Interdisciplinary Team When Communicating Prognosis

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendra Deja
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad

Breaking bad news about transitions to dying: A qualitative exploration of the role of the District Nurse

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Griffiths ◽  
Gail Ewing ◽  
Charlotte Wilson ◽  
Michael Connolly ◽  
Gunn Grande
Keyword(s):  
Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
District Nurse ◽  
Breaking Bad ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Announcing fetal pathology: Challenges encountered by physicians and potential role of simulation in training for breaking bad news

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 102044
Author(s):  
Alexandra Gueneuc ◽  
Christelle Dagher ◽  
Georges Rameh ◽  
Georges Haddad ◽  
Delphine Hivernaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad ◽  
Fetal Pathology

Effective Communication

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Metcalfe ◽  
Harveer Dev
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
Clinical Notes ◽  
Breaking Bad ◽  
Foundation Programme ◽  
Significant Life

Communication is fundamental to the role of the doctor. It includes routine verbal communication (e.g. history taking, updating relatives, handovers, and requesting investigations from specialists), written communication (e.g. prescriptions, updating the clinical notes, and discharge summaries), breaking bad news, and ‘challenging’ interactions such as dealing with an angry relative. Questions within this section assess your ability to communicate effectively with patients and colleagues. Effective communication requires understanding and being understood. You will need to demonstrate an ability to negotiate with colleagues, to document information within the medical notes clearly and concisely, to gather information from patients, and to listen to angry relatives. As always, your responses must adapt to the needs and context of each situation, while always remembering to demonstrate empathy and compassion. ● Listen to patients, relatives, and colleagues. They are trying to tell you something. ● Explain your position carefully after listening to the other side. ● Adapt your style as far as possible to the person with whom you are communicating. ● However strongly you feel, poor manners will never get the job done faster. Foundation doctors should not usually be left to ‘break bad news’ in the classical sense of a new cancer diagnosis in clinic. However, bad news can take many forms and it is likely that you will find yourself going through the ‘breaking bad news’ sequence many times during the foundation programme. For example, the following scenarios are all bad news to varying degrees. Some patients will take such developments in their stride and others will rank them amongst other significant life events. ● An incidental ‘nodule’ found on a CT chest that might be benign but will require a follow- up scan in three months. ● An elderly man who has become very unwell and is unlikely to survive while you are on call. You have been assigned the task of calling his wife, providing an update, and suggesting she come to the hospital urgently. ● The fact that investigations have all been normal and they are being discharged without a diagnosis for their persistent debilitating abdominal pain.

Breaking bad news in inpatient clinical settings: role of the nurse

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 1543-1555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Warnock ◽  
Angela Tod ◽  
Julie Foster ◽  
Cathy Soreny
Keyword(s):  
Bad News ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad

scholarly journals Breaking Bad News: Patient Preferences and the Role of Family Members when Delivering a Cancer Diagnosis

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1779-1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abha Rao ◽  
Bhuvana Sunil ◽  
Maria Ekstrand ◽  
Elsa Heylen ◽  
Girish Raju ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Patient Preferences ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad

Barriers to breaking bad news among medical and surgical residents

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Dosanjh ◽  
Judy Barnes ◽  
Mohit Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad News ◽  
Breaking Bad ◽  
Surgical Residents
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