Cardiac Output, Venous Return, and Their Regulation
Breaking bad news 22.04.2021
1. Breaking
Bad News
Dr. Shazia Iqbal
Assistant Professor
Director of Medical Education Unit
Vision College of Medicine,
Riyadh
2. Objectives
What is a Bad News? Why is it Important to
Learn to Break Bad News?
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5 Stages of Grief and Loss.
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How to break Bad News.
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Discuss examples and Patrice 5
stages in different scenarios .
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3. What is a Bad
News?
Any information that adversely
and seriously affects an
individual’s view of her/his
future life.
4. Some Examples of Bad News
Disclosing:
diagnosis of cancer
cancer recurrence
Positive genetic test results
Presence of an irreversible disease
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5. Why is it Important to Learn
to Break Bad News?
- patient want the truth
- a frequent but painful task
- clinical outcomes
- ethical and legal imperatives
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7. Many NPs view breaking bad news as a
communication skill that is important for
clinicians working in end-of-life care,
where the news can be that treatment has
been unsuccessful leaving few options for
disease control, or that death is imminent.
8. As Physician . . .
You are Expected to Break
Bad News to the Patient or
his/her family.
11. S SETTING UP the interview
P Assessing the patient’s PERCEPTIONS
I Obtaining patient’s INVITATION
K Giving KNOWLEDGE to the patient
E Addressing patient’s EMOTIONS with empathy
S STRATEGY and SUMMARY
Six Steps of Spikes