Telling children about their impending death
- 10 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in British Journal of Nursing
- Vol. 3 (3) , 119-120
- https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.1994.3.3.119
Abstract
Although some parents and health care staff believe that knowledge of impending death should be withheld from children to protect them, seriously ill children usually have an awareness of death. Denial of this by parents and staff may increase the child's stress. Nurses must address the question: asked by Rimmer (1993): ‘To whom does the information of the diagnosis belong?’Keywords
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