title: [Telling the truth to the patient and their family, an ethical challenge].
abstract: Nursing practice encounters a number of areas of uncertainty which are not entirely assuaged by the legal framework or best practice recommendations. Caregivers must demonstrate lucidity and sincerity, with regard to themselves and their patients, and undertake humanist and ethical reflection. Announcing a serious diagnosis is the first difficult stage of a complicated and painful experience, shared between the patient, the family or institutional carers and the health professionals.
authors.affiliation: c/o Revue Soins, 92442 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex, France. Electronic address: manoucheparis@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lecompte
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D000070516:Intersectoral Collaboration; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000941:ethics; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000941:ethics; D011368:Professional-Family Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D014342:Truth Disclosure / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: care; communication; ethics; information; judiciarisation; litigiousness; soin; truth; vérité; éthique