Palliative care: a foreign language? Nurses' perspectives on palliative care in a French comprehensive cancer centre.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Integrated patient-centred palliative care for cancer patients is widely advocated internationally, but promoting it often proves difficult. The literature suggests that one key factor is physicians' perspectives of palliative care (PC). Nurses' views, however, from their pivotal stance within the healthcare team between patients and physicians, have been less well researched. This study explores French nurses' perspectives on PC, how their view frames their role, and how they experience PC implementation. Nurses' discourse is then explored as a reflection of their experience.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were audio-recorded of 21 registered nurses, purposively sampled, in a French comprehensive cancer centre. Reflexive thematic analysis was applied by a tea

SUBMITTER: Taillefer G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11905473 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature