NUR272 End-of-life Care Nursing Assignment Help

Skilled communication by nurses is a core activity in palliative and end-of-life care. Yet for many nurses, it is a challenging and confronting task to communicate with patients about their illness trajectories, their personal experiences of dying, and the palliative care they are receiving. A key source of information to inform nursing practice are patients’ own perspectives.

In Assessment Task 1, you will prepare a 2000 word written assignment that demonstrates your ability to explore the peer-reviewed literature, your critical understanding of the key points from the peer-reviewed literature, and your insights into how nursing practice might be informed by these key points.

To do this, you will be reviewing a selected article by Collins et al. (2018) to identify three key discussion points you will then find and explore four other journal articles to review.

Follow these steps to undertake Task 1 – read them through carefully before you start:

Read the selected article (there is a link on the Canvas site).

Collins, A., McLachlan, S. A., & Philip, J. (2018). Communication about palliative care: a phenomenological study exploring patient views and responses to its discussion. Palliative medicine, 32(1), 133-142