Psychosocial Care that Nurses can Provide to Adult Cancer Patients

Psychosocial Care that Nurses can provide to adult cancer patients
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Psychosocial Care that Nurses can provide to adult cancer patients
The article explores psychosocial care; the potential barriers, how nurses provide it, utilize assessment tools and the impact, issues and benefits of providing effective psychosocial care (Legg, 2011).The psychosocial support comprises of the culturally sensitive provision of psychological, social and spiritual care. The potential barriers to offering the best psychosocial care include failure to establish nurse-patient relationship due to the part-time working programs of nurses; high workload and lack of available time; the difficulty of setting professional boundaries when interacting with patients; using wrong interview strategies; and emotional exhaustion. Providing a good psychosocial care involves having excellent communication skills, both verbal and non‑verbal. A relationship of health care providers w...