|Articles|April 28, 2015

Nurse Practitioners Communicating Bad News to Cancer Patients

Author(s)P. Gage Gwyn, PhD, ARNP-BC, CNS, OCN, FCN

In this video from the 2015 ONS meeting, Dr. Gwyn talks about nurse practitioners delivering bad news to patients by utilizing the SPIKES protocol.

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