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- Title
Breaking bad news: Communication skills for difficult conversations.
- Authors
Davenport, Lisa; Schopp, Georgeanne
- Abstract
The article focuses on the development of good communication skills by physician assistants (PAs) to avoid delivering bad news to a patient under difficult conversations. It cites the importance of utilizing health care team members to provide quality of care to patients with complex medical conditions. It suggests the need to address the provision of spiritual and mental care in families and patients who are terminally ill or not, which aims to control their suffering.
- Subjects
CARING; COMMUNICATIVE competence; EMPATHY; PATIENT-professional relations; PALLIATIVE treatment; PHYSICIANS' assistants; TERMINAL care; WORLD Wide Web; INFORMATION resources; CULTURAL awareness; SPIRITUAL care (Medical care); CONTINUING education units
- Publication
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (Haymarket Media, Inc.), 2011, Vol 24, Issue 2, p46
- ISSN
1547-1896
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1097/01720610-201102000-00008