COMMUNICATION IN PALLIATIVE NURSING. THE COMFORT MODEL. 2ND EDITION

1. Introduction to Communication Approach
2. C - Connect
3. O - Options
4. M - Making Meaning
5. F - Family
6. O - Openings
7. R - Relating
8. T - Team
Appendix:
Recommended Outcome Measure: Comfort with Communication in Palliative and End of Life Care (C-COPE) ©
Recommended COMFORT Communication Competencies By Chapter
Recommended Comprehensive Teaching Resources

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, Relating, and Team communication. Based on a narrative approach to communication, which addresses communication skill development, this volume teaches nurses to consider a universal model of communication that aligns with the holistic nature of palliative care. This work moves beyond the traditional and singular view of the nurse as patient and family educator, to embrace highly complex communication challenges present in palliative care-namely, providing care and comfort through communication at a time when patients, families, and nurses themselves are suffering.
In light of the vast changes in the palliative care landscape and the increasingly pivotal role of nurses in advancing those changes, this second edition provides an evidence-based approach to the practice of palliative nursing. Communication in Palliative Nursing integrates communication theory and health literacy constructs throughout, and provides clinical tools and teaching resources to help nurses enhance their own communication and create comfort for themselves, as well as for patients and their families.

Features
• Gives nurses the tools needed to offer comfort to patients and families, as well as to care for themselves
• Takes an interdisciplinary approach, since the authors have different backgrounds in nursing and communications
• Approaches communication skills development holistically and accounts for the holistic model of palliative care
• Narrative approach to communication in palliative care addresses communication as a self-care tool for nurses