The nursing and the stigma of palliative care in oncology units

In the services of Oncology and in the advanced stages of the disease,the fact of passing from the treatment to the palliative process entails difficult situations,both for patients and for health professionals. Because of this, in this presntation is addressed the stigma after the tratment failure and the inevitability of palliative care, deepening the need to improve the communicative process of the health care team to enhance the good caring practices.