Ethical perspectives in communication in cancer care: An interpretative phenomenological study.

CONCLUSION: The interplay of meanings attached by patients, their caregivers, and their attending oncologist and nurse to communication about diagnosis and prognosis revealed complexities and ambiguities not yet settled. Physicians still need to solve the ethical tensions in their caring relationship with patients to really allow them 'to choose with dignity and being aware of it'. Nurses need to develop awareness about their role in diagnosis and prognosis-related communication. This cognizance is essential not just to assure consistency of communication within the multi-disciplinary team but mostly because it allows and enables the moral agent to take its own responsibilities and be accountable for them. PMID: 32406310 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Nursing Ethics - May 13, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Melis P, Galletta M, Aviles Gonzalez CI, Contu P, Jimenez Herrera MF Tags: Nurs Ethics Source Type: research