Efficient communication facilitates the interaction between nurses and patients, family/caregivers, and contributes to their trust in the team and in the care itself, allowing greater symptom control, strengthening coping strategies, facilitating treatment adherence, and guiding treatment processes and decision-making while also increasing the satisfaction with the care provided and the quality of life [9; 10; 11], which is why the nurse's competence in communication is fundamental to the care process. Communication is a basic nursing skill [12], essential in person-centered nursing care as recommended in the Theory of Person-Centered Care by [PERSON] and [PERSON] [9], especially in a scenario of particular fragility such as the progression of a serious and life-limiting illness as in the palliative care plan [13]. In this context, nurses must master specific communication techniques and strategies that enable them to effectively communicate with palliative care patients as well as their families and caregivers. It is also important for nurses to communicate well with the multidisciplinary team when dealing with such complex situations [11]. Breaking bad news is often referred to in the literature as one of the most difficult and worrying actions in nursing clinical practice. It is one of the situations in which the professional's competence in using appropriate strategies to communicate acquires particular relevance and impact on the readaptation process to the successive losses [14; 15]. Breaking bad news is often associated with the transmission of information regarding disease diagnoses, prognoses, or disease progression; however, bad news is more comprehensive [16; 17]. When discussing bad news in the context of health, it can be defined as any news that negatively affects an individual's outlook on their future. This type of news has the power to impact hope, emotional and mental well-being, and disrupt one's lifestyle. It is not limited to the communication of medical diagnoses, results of analyses, complementary diagnostic exams, or treatments [16; 18]. In everyday clinical practice, there are many situations in which nurses are responsible for breaking bad news and more often find themselves in the position of managing bad news, whether it is delivered by themselves or another health professional [19]. Therefore, delivering bad news should be seen as a process, not just as the moment of transmitting negative information to the palliative patient. The process of communicating and managing bad news involves the moments before and after the information is conveyed and is not limited to the moment it is verbalized [20]. This highlights the significance of not only communicating bad news but also managing it effectively. In most cases this issue is obvious, such as a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease (and a consequential probability of reduced longevity, functional decline, and/or quality of life); however, in other cases, it may not be so obvious. A referral to a palliative care team, a need for hospitalization, an impossibility of staying at home without assistance, a decline in analytical parameters, a need for chemotherapy treatments or their suspension, among many other pieces of information, are often bad news, transmitted by nurses in this area during their daily practice [14; 21]. Communicating and managing bad news is a complex skill that informs the person in a palliative situation and empowers them to make decisions and plan their care trajectory, which has evolved significantly in recent years as care has advanced. The focus is more and more on the person, their needs, and their desires [9]. However, despite the existence of several studies on the intervention of other health professionals in the breaking of bad news, few are found focused on nursing [19; 22], which is why it is important to explore the available evidence on communication and bad news management in the field of nursing care.