title: Student voice - Learning to respond to patients' families.
abstract: I HAVE ENCOUNTERED many challenging situations in my children's and general internship placements. One that stands out was when I was taking care of an adult patient who had undergone an endoscopic procedure - and it is one that has resonance in children's nursing. A biopsy was also taken of some tissue and it was reported that it was likely the patient had cancer.
authors.affiliation: Trinity College Dublin.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kirwan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*