Navigating the shift from curative treatment in palliative care
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Navigating the shift from curative treatment in palliative care

Catherine Turnbull Heath journalist

Advice for nurses on communicating bad news to patients, supporting them in advanced stages of illness and explaining what palliative care is

There is confusion among the public – and even among medical professionals – about what palliative care is and what it aims to achieve.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 23, 2, 7-9. doi: 10.7748/cnp.23.2.7.s3

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