["My tiny windows"--a nurse's point of view--case study from a home palliative care meeting]

In visiting nursing care for home palliative care, nurses should take medical care with a holistic viewpoint. Nurses are not only a daily care provider to clients, but nurses are also necessary to think of themselves as being a person because they are in contact with clients' lives every day. In this home palliative care case, nurses had a chance to intervene with a woman with end-stage-cancer. Once in a while, the client had refused visiting nursing care with no reason. So it was necessary to have meetings frequently to discuss the problem. One of the things we thought was that we had to listen to the client and to watch her expression and behavior very carefully. This case study suggested that nurses should reconsider their practices to improve and to establish their original methods of nursing along with their clients.