Mervat El Ali

Supervisors:

Professor Lynn Gillam (Clinical Ethicist and Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne & The University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health)

Dr Sharon Licqurish (Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery Monash University)

Professor Clare Delaney (Academic: Medical Education)

PhD Title:

Is sharing 'Caring'? - Nurses experiences with disclosing medical information to children.

Abstract:

The proposed study aims to explore the experience and attitude of nurses towards communication to children aged between 4 and 12, who have been hospitalised with a serious illness. The significance of this research is the potential communication strategies that may be implemented to improve a child’s psychological well-being during a period of significant change. Data will be collected through semi-structured interviews that will be recorded then transcribed verbatim. This qualitative study will take a phenomenological approach.