Exemple concret d'une carte conceptuelle : comment aider une famille dont le proche est dans le coma ?

In the complex situation of palliative care, one of the most difficult tasks for healthcare teams is to deal with poorly-controlled symptoms. The team's approach to the family of a comatose patient is an example requiring careful handling of the caregiver-family relationship and full respect of personal dignity. In this context, a conceptual map can serve as a readable tool centered on the main, complex, topic, and helpful for identifying the key phases. This theme can be used for teaching exercises. From well-established “mother” ideas will issue “daughter” ideas enabling coherent reasoning. This tool can be useful for a multidiscipline team interested in creating a participative creative approach to particularly burdensome, because poorly defined, daily problems. Practitioners must however be aware that the usefulness of this innovative tool can be lost if the approach is too “procedural”. There is a learning curve. This tool can nevertheless be helpful in improving the quality of the multidisciplinary approach to difficult to handle symptoms and complex medico-psychosocial situations.