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Communication in
Serious Illness
Constance Dahlin, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN Palliative Care Specialist
Boston, MA
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Disclosure Statement of Financial Interest
I, Constance Dahlin, Have reported no relevant conflict of interest for the purpose of the
MiPCT Summit Care Manager Session on Palliative Care
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Objective
Describe the importance of communication with patients with
serious illness.
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Communication is the cornerstone of palliative care. The delivery of quality palliative care is
dependent on skillful communication.
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Communication is a powerful therapeutic tool. When used well,
communication can empower patients and families with a sense of
control. It may also reduce uncertainty and provide a basis for
action.
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Death
Time
Hea
lth
Sta
tus
10-15% (trauma, accident, MI, fatal stroke)
Illness/Dying TrajectoriesSudden Death,
Unexpected Cause
Field & Cassel, 19976
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DeathTime
Hea
lth
Sta
tus
Field & Cassel, 1997
Illness/Dying TrajectoriesSteady Decline, Short
Terminal Phase
Cancer
Cancer
7
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Illness/Dying TrajectoriesSlow Decline, Periodic
Crises, Death
Hea
lth
Sta
tus
Time
Crises
Death
DeclineHCHF, COPD
Field & Cassel, 1997 8
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Palliative Care
World Health Organization, 2002
Curative Focus:Disease-Specific Treatments
Palliative Focus:Comfort / Supportive Treatments
BereavementSupport
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What constitutes Palliative Care?
• Appropriate care when curative treatment and life sustaining treatment are no longer appropriate nor desired.
• Appropriate care when patients have advanced illness and want aggressive symptom management with curative treatment
• Aggressive, well-planned symptom control• Anticipation and planning for future symptoms to
prevent suffering• Maximization of patient’s dignity and control• Minimization of suffering• Psychosocial support for patient and family• Protection from burdensome interventions
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ANA Standards of Practice, Standard 11 2010 Communication
• Assessing communication format preferences of patients, families and colleagues
• Assessing his or her own communication skills• Conveying information to patients, families
and the interdisciplinary team• Maintaining communication to promote safe
and effective transfers of care• Providing professional perspective in health
care discussions
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ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses Provision 1.3 (2001) Nursing care is directed toward meeting the comprehensive needs of patients and their families across the continuum of care. This is particularly vital in the care of patients and families at the end of life to prevent and relieve the cascade of symptoms and suffering that are commonly associated with dying.
Nurses are leaders and vigilant advocates for the delivery of dignified and humane care.
Nurses actively participate in assessing and assuring the responsible and appropriate use of interventions in order to minimize unwarranted or unwanted treatment and patient suffering (p.7)
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ANA Position Statement, Registered Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in Providing
Expert Care and Counseling at the End of Life 2010
“The counseling a nurse provides regarding end-of-life choices and preferences for individuals facing life-limiting illness, as well as throughout the patient’s life span, honors patient autonomy, and helps to prepare individuals and families for difficult decisions that may lie ahead.”
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ANA Position Statement, Registered Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in Providing
Expert Care and Counseling at the End of Life 2010
End-of-life choices are a quality of life issue.
Nurses, individually and collectively, have an obligation to provide comprehensive and compassionate end-of-life care, including the promotion of comfort, relief of pain, and support for patients, families, and their surrogates when a decision has been made to forgo life-sustaining treatments.
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Nurse’s Responsibilities in the Care of Dying Patients
1) Educate patients and their families about the use
of biotechnologies at the end of life, termination of
treatment decisions and advance directives;
2) Encourage patients to think about end-of-life
preferences in illness or a health crisis;
3) Support patients, their families, and their
surrogates to have end-of-life discussions with their
physicians;
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Nurse’s Responsibilities in the Care of Dying Patients
4) Ensure advance directives are implemented;
5) Communicate known information that is relevant
to end-of-life decisions to appropriate health care
personnel;
6) Advocate for a patient's end-of-life preferences
regardless of surrogate decision maker’s or
physician’s desire to not honor them if indeed the
preferences reflect beneficent care.
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Nursing Care and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and
Allow Natural Death (AND) Decisions
Nurses must advocate for and play an active role in initiating discussions about DNR with patients, families, and members of the health care team.
ANA
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DNR Discussions
All nurses ensure that whenever possible, the DNR decision is a subject of explicit discussion between the health care team, patient, and family (or designated surrogate), and that actions taken are in accordance with the patient's wishes. All nurses facilitate and participate in interdisciplinary mechanisms for the resolution of disputes between patients, families, and clinicians’ DNR orders (Cantor, et al., 2003).
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The American Nurses Association Recommendations
1) Clinical nurses actively participate in timely and frequent discussions on changing goals of care and initiate DNR/AND discussions with patients and their families and significant others.2) Clinical nurses ensure that DNR orders are clearly documented, reviewed, and updated periodically to reflect changes in the patient's condition (Joint Commission, 2010).
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The Nurse as Translator
Nurses often act as translators between the various health disciplines and providers and the patient/family.
• Tell me about your condition?• How much information do you want to know?• How do you make decisions?• Is there anyone else you want to know or whom we
should talk to about your condition, treatment or process?
• Are there any cultural/religious considerations to your health care that I should know?
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Nurse Patient Relationship
There are four basic elements to communication: imparting information, listening, information gathering, presence and sensitivity.
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Why communication at EOL difficult
• Emotional – Makes patient and family sad, makes them feel
helpless and out of control– Makes clinician sad, invokes guilt and sense of
failure
• Time Sensitive with Rapid Change of Status– stress of situation– disease progression– window of opportunity
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Barriers to Communication
• Social – personality and communication style
• Cultural• Professional – health care role• Organizational• Regulatory
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Communication Essential
• There is time along the disease trajectory to help guide the family with good communication
• Skilled communication helps patients and families at times critical decision making and transitions
• Promotes psychological healing• Allows for dying as well as possible
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Differences in Communication Style
• Lack of literature for non-physicians• Sometimes nurses and other
providers more tentative than physicians
• Concerns about nursing role in discussions and scope of practice issues
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Differences in Information Gathering
• Nurses and other providers gather at bedside
• Information through procedures• Not a formal interview
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Patient Family Communication
• Encourage communication by• Nodding one’s head;• Comments like “I see,” or “Tell me more”;• Repeating 2-3 words from their last
sentence, “…you were shocked by the diagnosis”;
• Reflecting, “So you mean that….” Or, “If I understand what you are saying, you are feeling…..”.
(Dahlin, 2010)
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Family system challenges• Lack of continuity among caregivers• Consistent lack of health care team communication where mixed
messages are given• Death in the family may be a new experience and existing coping
skills may not be helpful-new coping skills may be required.• Perceived or real lack of support among family members• Inability to care for family member, either physically or
emotionally, may lead to distress in family caregivers. This may lead to the patient having feelings of abandonment and isolation.
• Illness/dying/death/grief may still be a taboo topic for many families.
• Adolescents want to be informed with full honest disclosure.• Some family members play active roles when communicating with
the medical team-others take a less active role (i.e. “The doctor said this is what we have to do.”).
Boyd et al., 2011; Rabow et al., 2004
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Communication
Major strategy1. Open end questions are essential 2. Lack of agenda can help open discussion 3. Keeping discussion open by owning thoughts to make it less threatening– I am curious– I am worried – I wonder
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Guidelines for Encouraging Conversation
• Find out if patient/family want to talk• Setting the right atmosphere• Assessment of patient and family
understanding• Discuss quality of life and goals of
care
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Communication Questions
• Ask how much the patient/family want to know
• If pt doesn’t want to know, who do they want to know
• Who will make decisions• Has patient discussed their values, preferences, and beliefs
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Opening Questions
• How are things going for you/your family?• How do you think you/your loved one is
doing?• What do you understand about your
condition?• What has the doctor told you/your family?• What are you hoping from this
treatment/admission?• How can we support/help you?• Help me understand..• I am worried…
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Advice…..
• Take your time in giving advice.• Try not to give advice if at all
possible unless asked• If you do give advice, do it
unassumingly• “Have you thought about….”• “A friend of mine once tried…”• “When I went through this with my
friend, mother, etc. I found this to be helpful…”
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Assisting families to make decisions
Consider the overall situation (support systems, economics, technical aspects, locality and other issues).– Respond to their questions within a reasonable time and
encourage them to ask questions, as well.– Ask—“What would you like me to do? What are your
expectations? What do you need?”– When you do not know what to do, seek assistance.– Ask yourself, “What would I do if this was my family
member?”– Take the time to listen (Coyne et al., 2009; Dahlin, 2010;
Ting-Toomey, 2010).– Remind families that they are not making the decision, but
giving you information that guides the decision consistent with the patient’s wishes
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Resources
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Types of communication
• Giving Bad News• Transitioning to Palliative Care• Goals of Care/Advanced Care
Planning• Prognosis Discussions• Existential questions -Why• Discipline specific questions
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Routine Planned Meetings
(1)the discussion of prognosis, particularly if life expectancy is thought to be between 6 and 12 months;
(2)the discussion of treatment options with low probability of success
(3)the discussion of hopes and fears. (4)End-of-life communication in more
"routine" circumstances, when stability or recovery is predicted, normalizes the discussion of advanced care planning.
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"Urgent" Situations
(1)the patient is facing imminent death;
(2)the patient is talking about wanting to die;51
(3) the patient or family is inquiring about hospice;
(4)the patient has recently been hospitalized for severe, progressive illness;
(5) the patient is experiencing severe suffering and poor prognosis
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FIFE Model EPERC Fast Fact # 17
F = Feelings related to fears and concerns of illness
(Concerned, fears, feelings)I = Ideas and explanations of the cause(Ideas about what, think might be going on,
what it means) F= Functioning on daily life (Affecting your life, change in routine)E= Expectations(Expect, hope, expectation)
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Communication
• N – Naming It – It seems as if• U – Understanding – I ‘m hearing you
say• R – Respecting – I impressed that• S – Supporting – I am here and I will
be here• E – Exploring – Help me to
understand
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Reframing the Conversation Particularly If a Conflict
• Be curious about patient and colleague’s perspective by hearing the story
• Express views and feelings from the “I feel position”
• Take the time to talk and LISTEN• Problem solve together with a
common goal.
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“ The very most we can do for patients is to make it better
than it would have been if we were not there.”
Being there…
Rando, T. (1984). Grief, Dying and Death: Clinical Interventions forCaregivers. Champaign Il: Research Press