Dealling with Failure in Palliative Care
Issue: Vol 6 No. 2 (2003) Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy Vol 6 (2) 2003
Journal: Health and Social Care Chaplaincy
Subject Areas: Healthcare Communication
DOI: 10.1558/hscc.v6i2.39
Abstract:
In this article failure is considered from general, political and financial perspectives, Technological failure is discussed and educational, organizational and communicational failures are identified. In a Hospice setting, corporate staff failures are explored and the more painful personal and spiritual failures at the patient/carer interface are examined.
Author: Fiona Downs