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Examples of interview questions for the first three nurse participants and first two physician participants:
How do patient care decisions get made here? How do decisions get made when it doesn't look like the patient is going to recover? How do you know if decision making is going well? Not so well? What do you do with that?
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Examples of interview questions for participants 6–10, 4 nurses and 2 physicians:
What things do you think it is important to think about when working with patients who may be nearing the end of life? One of the things I've been hearing is that sometimes patients and families don't understand the treatment choices they make at the end of life. Do you sometimes try to help the patient and/or family understand this better? How? Can you give me an example? One thing that seems to influence how some providers work with patients and their families is the amount of time the patient has left to live. Does that come up in your practice? Can you give me an example where it does/doesn't seem to make a difference?
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Examples of interview questions for participants 11–15, 4 nurses and 1 physician:
Many participants have talked about their own experience and comfort level with working with patients near the end of life. Is working with people now different for you than as a new grad/intern? If so, how? Can you give me examples? How do you figure out whether a treatment decision is realistic? How about reasonable? Is there a difference between realistic and reasonable (unrealistic and unreasonable)? Can you give me examples? What difference does it make if everyone involved (patient, family, and providers) agree on how to proceed? What do you do when that is not the case? Can you give me examples?
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