The right to touch and be touched

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-176

  Routasalo, Pirkko ^a   Isola, Arja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOUCH;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; SEX FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 0030159849     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096973309600300209     Document Type: Article

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