Nurse Practitioners Communicating Bad News to Cancer Patients

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Conference|Oncology Nursing Society’s Annual Meeting (ONS)

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

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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