Past research has focused on physician-patient communication related to delivering diagnoses, developing treatment plans, and discussing patients’ experiences with cancer. Less attention has been devoted to better understanding the nurse-patient relationship and how this may relate to the patient’s experience of “being known” in health care. A better understanding of the patient’s perspective of “being known” will provide information on the added relevance of nurse-patient and nurse-nurse communication in cancer care settings. The overall goal of this study is to provide an in-depth exploration of cancer patients' experience of “being known” in an ambulatory cancer care setting where nursing rounds have been implemented.

For more information about this study, please contact the research team:

loiselle-research@mcgill.ca

(514) 398-8977