Most health-care professionals are trained to promote and maintain life and often have
difficulty when faced with the often rapid decline and death of people with terminal illnesses …

Background: A diagnosis of cancer is a stressful, difficult, and life-altering event. Breaking
bad news is distressing to patients and families and is often uncomfortable for the nurse …

Physicians experience many emotionally challenging situations in their professional lives,
influencing their emotional state through emotion contagion or social appraisal processes …

Introduction Stress is a common phenomenon in medical professions. Breaking bad news
(BBN) is reported to be a particularly distressing activity for physicians. Traditionally, the …

ALS is a relentlessly progressive and fatal disease, with no curative therapies available to
date. Symptomatic and palliative care, provided in a multidisciplinary context, still remains …

Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD) can be a life-altering and traumatic
event for expectant parents. Parental anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress are common …

Aims and objectives To investigate challenges nurses face when providing care for
oncology patients transitioning from curative to palliative care and to identify educational …

Simulation-based education (SBE) has all the requisite elements for a stressful experience:
being novel, unpredictable, imparting a sense of lack of control, and potentially threatening …

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 …

In the practice of oncology, a number of clinical situations require bad news to be given to
patients and families. SPIKES (setting, perception, invitation for information, knowledge …