title: Palliative care to the cancer patient: reflections according to Paterson and Zderad's view.
abstract: This reflective study presents the approach of the Nursing Palliative Care to the cancer patient without therapeutic possibility according to the Paterson and Zderad's Humanistic Nursing Theory. The palliative care aims to provide the patient without therapeutic possibility and his family better quality of life. When the nurse, in addition to delivering palliative care to the cancer patient, uses the Humanistic Theory, (s)he starts to recognize each person as a singular existence. This recognition permits one to understand the person's meaning in the process of his(er) disease.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Cancer. mlavinas@fortalnet.com.br
authors.forename: Míria Conceição
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Lavinas Santos
authors.forename: Lorita Marlena
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Freitag Pagliuca
authors.forename: Ana Fátima
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Carvalho Fernandes
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data