scholarly journals La formación médica en comunicación de malas noticias: Una revisión narrativa.

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.

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 ◽  
pp. emermed-2020-210141
Author(s):  
Anna Collini ◽  
Helen Parker ◽  
Amy Oliver

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been strict limits on visitors to hospitals. This has led to clinicians having an increasing number of difficult conversations with patients and their relatives over the phone. There is a lack of published literature examining how to do this well, but it is recognised that phone communication does differ from face to face interactions, and requires specific training. What is most important to patients and their families when receiving bad news is privacy, adequate time without interruptions, clarity and honesty when delivering the information, and an empathetic and caring attitude. Much of the work done on breaking bad news has been done in oncology and focusses on face to face interaction; there has been an assumption that this is transferrable to the emergency department, and more recently that this is applicable to conversations over the phone. Multiple educational interventions to improve the delivery of bad news have been developed, with differing frameworks to help clinicians carry out this stressful task. Simulation is widely used to train clinicians to break bad news, and has solid theoretical foundations for its use. The psychological safety of participants must be considered, especially with emotive subjects such as breaking bad news. We believe there is a need for specific training in breaking bad news over the phone, and developed an innovative simulation-based session to address this. The training has been well received, and has also highlighted the need for a space where clinicians feel able to discuss the emotional impact of the difficult conversations they are having.


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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