White lie during patient care: a qualitative study of nurses' perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Keeping the patients well and fully informed about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments is one of the patient's rights in any healthcare system. Although all healthcare providers have the same viewpoint about rendering the truth in treatment process, sometimes the truth is not told to the patients; that is why the healthcare staff tell "white lie" instead. This study aimed to explore the nurses' experience of white lies during patient care.

Methods

This qualitative study was conducted from June to December 2018. Eighteen hospital nurses were recruited with maximum variation from ten state-run educational hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Purposeful sampling was used and data were collected by semi-structured interviews that were contin

SUBMITTER: Nasrabadi AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature