Patients would like to be listened to and believed
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Patients would like to be listened to and believed

Lizzie Morgan Clinical nurse specialist/clinical manager, Nottinghamshire Hospice

Go beyond assessing physical pain and ask how it affects people

Having been a cancer nurse for more than 12 years, I have assessed hundreds of patients’ pain and have seen how my assessment and actions have brought about improvements in what they are feeling.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 16, 10, 14-14. doi: 10.7748/cnp.16.10.14.s13

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