Calling for deliberative dialogue
Dealing with the patients’ ambivalence
The RNs felt inadequate when they failed to deal with patients who expressed a wish to withdraw from dialysis or expressly said they wanted to die but did not repeat that wish when talking to others apart from the
RNs. The narratives are about patients who told the RNs that they had thought it through and wanted to
withdraw from dialysis, but the RNs felt that they were persuaded by relatives and physicians to continue: