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Tag: Patient Counseling

A Heavy Heart | Where’s the Moral Compass for Informing End Stage Patients?

By Bobbi McCarthy, RN | Published on Dec 28, 2011

I cannot get into specifics but I have a question for all of you fellow nurses. What do you do when you have a patient that is young, experiencing end stage metastatic cancer and they do not know it. The oncologist has not given them […]