Aim To synthesise the experiences of nursing students encountering patient death and
caring for patients under palliative care or at end-of-life and their families in clinical settings …

Background: Timely and effective communication about end-of-life issues, including
conversations about prognosis and goals of care, are extremely beneficial to terminally ill …

Background Nursing students have reported that they lack skills and knowledge in palliative
and end-of-life care, and as a result, they faced numerous challenges caring for patients and …

Background Effective communication between people with advanced cancer and their family
members on end-of-life issues has a profound impact on meeting needs and improving …

Background Breaking bad news is inevitable for prospective doctors, it is important for
medical students to learn how to humanely communicate devastating news to patients. This …

Background: Chinese American adults experience health disparities at the end of life.
Culturally tailored advance care planning (ACP) may promote goal-concordant care across …

Objectives To synthesise empirical findings on the role of family in end-of-life (EOL)
communication and to identify the communicative practices that are essential for EOL …

Background Chinese clinical nurses are increasingly confronting patient death, as the
proportion of hospital deaths is growing. Witnessing patient suffering and death is stressful …

Synthesis: Five themes emerged:(a) nature of AD and ACP communication,(b) insufficient
understanding of the differences between ADs and ACP,(c) late timing of AD and ACP …

Purpose Novice nurses find it challenging to cope with patient dying and death, especially in
a death taboo cultural context, such as mainland China. By taking the example of Chinese …