The values history as a nursing intervention to encourage use of advance directives among older adults

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-96

  Schirm, Victoria ^a   Stachel, Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b Internal Medicine Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; LIVING WILL; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS; LIVING WILLS; MALE; NURSE'S ROLE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030133811     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0897-1897(96)80479-4     Document Type: Article

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