Communication is central to nursing care—especially in the setting of a progressive disease,
which will end in the patient's death. This article outlines a variety of communication …

OBJECTIVES: To provide practical strategies to enhance the quality of communication in the
palliative and end-of-life medical care settings. DATA SOURCES: Published articles …

Communication in Palliative Nursing unites complementary work in communication studies
and nursing research to present a theoretically grounded curriculum for teaching palliative …

Objectives To provide a clinical update on practical strategies to enhance the quality of
communication in the palliative and end-of-life medical care settings. Data Sources …

Effective communication between clinicians and seriously ill patients and their families about
a patient's goals of care is essential to patient-centered, goal-concordant, end-of-life care …

Communication skills are paramount in effective delivery of palliative care. The emphasis in
much of the previous literature has been on physician communication and also has been …

Communication is vital to quality palliative care nursing particularly when caring for
someone with a chronic life-limiting illness and their family. Conversations about future …

Communication is imperative for end-of-life decision-making; however, descriptions of key
strategies used by nurses are missing. A phenomenological approach was used to interpret …

Objective First, to describe communication of home hospice nurse visits to cancer patient-
caregiver dyads. Second, to assess change in communication related to domains of care …

Communication in Palliative Nursing presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-
grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication. Built on over a …