Breaking bad news Flashcards
1
Q
How do you prepare yourself to support a pateint receiving bad news?
(Bumb et al, 2017)
A
- Have knowledge behind their illness/diagnoses
- Be ready to answer their questions and concerns
- Offer emotional support
- Have a quiet setting, ensuring privacy is there
- Explaining it in a way the patient will get
- Ensuring the patient understands
- Communicate information clearly
2
Q
How do you address cultrual consideration when breaking bad news to patients or their family members?
(Bumb et al, 2017)
A
- be respectful towards other peoples ciltures
- stigma ariund knowing all the information
- if someone wishes their family not to know respect that and vise versa
- provide culturally senstive care
3
Q
How do you chose the setting where you deliver bad news to the patient?
(Bumb et al, 2017)
A
- somewhere eprivate where no one else can overhear
- should be quiet and not a place where interrupptions can happen
- pateint should be comfortable
