"Communication in Palliative Nursing 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, R ..."
"The church does not cope very well with dying. Instead of using its own resources to mount a positive end-of-life ministry for the terminally ill, it outsources care to secular models, providers, and services. A terminal diagnosis typically triggers denial of impending death and placing faith in the techniques and resources of modern medicine. If a cure is not forthcoming, the patient and his or her loved ones experience a sense of fail ..."
"Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives explores mental health through the lens of the communication discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a broader perspective and stigma of mental health. In the second section, contributors investigate mental health through various narrative perspectives. In the third and fourth section ..."
""The first edition of Communication in Palliative Nursing was published in 2012 and became the market leader for nurses wanting to learn more about how to improve and teach palliative care communication."
"Recovering the Church's Voice in the Face of Death Fred Craddock, Dale
Goldsmith, Joy V. Goldsmith. hope. This is all ... Nonetheless, this conviction of
the “hoped for” can narrow the focus of the participant to one goal (survival)
sought from one source (science). But is there ... Instead, we agree with those
Christians like the great twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth, who says that “
medical art and science rest. . . on a l ..."
"... book took shape over several years and was influenced by many. I express
thanks first to Linda Bathgate, Senior Editor at Erlbaum, with whom I first
discussed the idea and who generously led me through the proposal process.
Thanks also to two “anonymous” reviewers (one of whom, Elissa Foster,
suggested several improvements in writing and over lunch!) Of course, I bent the
ears of many friends over the years and also listened to ..."
"Tuffrey-Wijne, I., & McEnghill, L. (2008). Communication difficulties and
intellectual disability in end-of-life care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing
, 14, 189–194. West, R., & Turner, L. (2007). Introducing Communication Theory:
Analysis and Application (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Wittenberg-Lyles, E.,
Goldsmith, J., Ragan, S., & Sanchez-Reilly, S. (2008). Communicating a terminal
prognosis in a palliative care s ..."
"This remarkable work reveals and follows the intimate stories of several families facing terminal illness with and without palliative care. Examining their expereinces of diagnosis and care from the prism of palliative care communication, the authors use narrative description to identify the expereinces of isolated, rescued, and comforted illness in an effort to reveal the deficits in our current communication and literacy practices bet ..."
"The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care, providing a compilation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. This online resource volume was uniquely developed by an interdisciplinary editorial team to address an array of providers including physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains, and unites clinicians with academic researchers interested in the stud ..."
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and Palliative Nurses Association Communication Competencies for ... providing
respectful care, delivering pain and symptom management, and alleviating
suffering while honoring a patient's values, goals, and preferences.7 The ANA's
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice directly addresses a nurse's
responsibility to (a) assess communication format prefe ..."
"Using computer agents to explain medical documents to patients with low health
literacy. Patient Educ Couns. 2009;75(3):315–320. ... it time to rebrand palliative
care? http://www.ehospice. com/ArticleView/tabid/10686/ArticleId/10006/
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"Communication in Palliative Nursing unites complementary work in communication studies and nursing research to present a theoretically grounded curriculum for teaching palliative care communication to nurses. The chapters outline the COMFORT curriculum, comprised of these elements: Communication, Orientation and opportunity, Mindful presence, Family, Openings, Relating, and Team communication. Central to this curriculum is the need for ..."
"Multiple Voices in Palliative Care Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles,
Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Sanchez Reilly. DuPre, A. (2005) Communicating About
Health: Current Issues and Perspectives (2nd edn). ... Retrieved January 7, 2007
from www.forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2007/01/07/hscout600766.html/. Ford
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"This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life. Challenging the predominantly biomedical model that informs much communication between seriously ill and/or dying patients and their physicians, caregivers, and families, Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, and Sandra Sanchez-Reilly po ..."
"Weeks, J.,Cook,E.,O'Day, S., Peterson,L., Wenger,N., Reding,D., Harrell, F.,
Kussin,P., Dawson, N.,Connors, A., Lynn,J.,andPhillips,R. (1998)Relationship
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"This remarkable work reveals and follows the intimate stories of several families facing terminal illness with and without palliative care. Examining their experiences of diagnosis and care from the prism of palliative care communication, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Sandra Sanchez-Reilly use narrative description to identify the experiences of isolated, rescued, and comforted illness in an effort to r ..."
"This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to identify the impact of communication and its burdens on the caregiver and presents four caregiver profiles: the Manager, Carrier, Partner, and Lone caregiver, each emerging from a family ..."
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