Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model

Presents the COMFORT Model, a theoretically-grounded and empirically-based model of palliative care communication.

Built on over a decade of communication research with patients, families, and interdisciplinary providers, and reworked based on feedback from hundreds of nurses nationwide, the chapters outline a revised COMFORT curriculum: Connect, Options, Making Meaning, Family caregivers, Openings, Relating, and Team communication. Based on a narrative approach to communication, which addresses communication skill development, this volume teaches nurses to consider a universal model of communication that aligns with the holistic nature of palliative care. This work moves beyond the traditional and singular view of the nurse as patient and family educator, to embrace highly complex communication challenges present in palliative care-namely, providing care and comfort through communication at a time when patients, families, and nurses themselves are suffering.

In light of the vast changes in the palliative care landscape and the increasingly pivotal role of nurses in advancing those chang

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Wittenberg, Elaine; Goldsmith, Joy V.; Ragan, Sandra L.

ISBN:

978-0-19-006132-6

Specialty:

• Palliative Medicine
• Home Care/Hospice
• Terminal Care Nursing

Language:

English

Edition:

2nd

Pages:

328

Publication Year:

2020

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