Breaking bad news: a case study on communication in health care

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Hemming
2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Sparks ◽  
Melinda M. Villagran ◽  
Jessica Parker-Raley ◽  
Cory B. Cunningham

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (13) ◽  
pp. 858-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Anderson

This is the first of a two-part article on the communication process in health care. The interactive process of effective communication is crucial to enabling healthcare organisations to deliver compassionate, high-quality nursing care to patients, in facilitating interactions between the organisation and its employees and between team members. Poor communication can generate negativity; for instance, misperception and misinterpretation of the messages relayed can result in poor understanding, patient dissatisfaction and lead to complaints. Reflection is a highly beneficial tool. In nursing, it enables nurses to examine their practice, identify problems or concerns, and take appropriate action to initiate improvements. This two-part article examines the role of a uro-oncology clinical nurse specialist (UCNS). Ongoing observations and reflections on the UCNS's practice had identified some pertinent issues in the communication process, specifically those relating to clinical practice and the management of practice-related issues and complaints. Part 1 examines the inherent problems in the communication process, with explanation of their pertinence to delivering optimal health care to patients, as demonstrated in four case studies related to breaking bad news to patients and one scenario related to communicating in teams. Part 2 will focus on the management of complaints.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Luis Alfonso Díaz-Martínez ◽  
Mitzy Helein Cuesta Armesto ◽  
María José Díaz Rojas

Una parte fundamental de la atención en salud es la comunicación con los pacientes y sus familias, proceso crítico a la hora de dar malas noticias. Desafortunadamente, muchos médicos no reciben entrenamiento específico durante su pregrado, desarrollando, muchas veces en forma inadecuada, sus habilidades para hacerlo. Este artículo presenta las bases conceptuales, pedagógicas y didácticas para formular cursos o actividades formales de entrenamiento en dar malas noticias en un programa de Medicina. Se incluye una síntesis de lo que se conoce sobre la percepción que tienen médicos, estudiantes y pacientes sobre el dar o recibir malas noticias, sobre los protocolos existentes y sobre las experiencias documentadas sobre tal entrenamiento. In health care, communication with patients and their families is essential, and a critical process when breaking bad news. Unfortunately, many doctors do not receive specific training during their undergraduate studies, often developing their skills in an empirical way to do so. This article presents the conceptual, pedagogical, and didactic bases for formulating courses or training activities to break bad news in every medicine program. It includes a synthesis of what is known within physicians, students and patients perception about this task, on existing protocols and on documented experiences of such training.


2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Rudnick

Informed consent to breaking (or waiving) bad news is an important yet neglected topic. It is distinct from informed consent to diagnosis and to treatment, and may be logically and ethically sound, provided patients are competent and that no considerable harm may be caused to others by breaking or waiving bad news to patients. This requires a differential assessment procedure in order to balance patient autonomy, benefit and justice towards others, preferably exploring patients’ values, expectations and needs with them, so that an acceptable decision can be made on whether to act on their consent to breaking or waiving bad news, or to ignore it and act on informed consent by proxy. Future study should attempt to provide a detailed characterization of procedures for attaining informed consent to breaking or waiving bad news, and to test their success in establishing ethically sound health care.


2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Dosanjh ◽  
Judy Barnes ◽  
Mohit Bhandari

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Herrmann ◽  
H Ortwein ◽  
A Klambeck ◽  
C Schwarz ◽  
J Schildmann

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