Cancer nurses narrating after conversations with cancer outpatients: how do nurses’ roles and patients’ perspectives appear in the nurses’ narratives?

Abstract

Cancer nurses' role appreciation and meaning horizons are guiding their perceptions of patient-nurse communication. Feeling free to act in interplay with patients' voices, the patients' perspectives become foreground. There is an educational challenge here in terms of developing methods to help nurses to discover how their mental work and meaning horizons guide conversational practice.