Comfort and nurses' moral choices

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 260-264

  Wurzbach, Mary Ellen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPATHY; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NURSING CARE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; EMPATHY; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MORALS; NURSING CARE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0030208496     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.01985.x     Document Type: Article

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