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Understanding The Skills Necessary For Advanced Practice Nurses In Oncology To Deliver Bad News To Patients With Cancer: The Results Of A Delphi Analysis, Matthew Michael Burke
Understanding The Skills Necessary For Advanced Practice Nurses In Oncology To Deliver Bad News To Patients With Cancer: The Results Of A Delphi Analysis, Matthew Michael Burke
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Overcoming the dichotomy of providing bad news in a compassionate, empathetic manner that strengthens dialogue and enhances a caring environment is the ultimate challenge advanced practice nurses (APN) face in oncology. This study aims to understand the skills necessary for APNs in oncology to deliver bad news to patients with cancer.
Using a Delphi analysis, an established method of developing a consensus, a novel, patient-centered survey tool has been developed designed to extract as much information as possible about the present issue from an expert panel. Oncology APNs were recruited via Facebook. The survey tool was administered using a web-based …