title: Listening to the lived experience of loss.
abstract: As nurses we often underestimate the importance, significance, and therapeutic value of listening. When a person experiences loss and is in emotional turmoil, the fundamental need is to be "heard." Active listening allows us to participate in the inner feelings of another and to move toward an understanding of the lived experience of loss.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Gibbons
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations