[Telling the truth to the patient and their family, an ethical challenge].

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Published: January 2017

Nursing practice encounters a number of areas of uncertainty which are not entirely assuaged by the legal framework or best practice recommendations. Caregivers must demonstrate lucidity and sincerity, with regard to themselves and their patients, and undertake humanist and ethical reflection. Announcing a serious diagnosis is the first difficult stage of a complicated and painful experience, shared between the patient, the family or institutional carers and the health professionals.

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