Serenity as a goal for nursing practice

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 359-364

  Roberts, Kay T ^a,c   Whall, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotions; Spirituality; Theory construction

Indexed keywords

EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING PROCESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW;

EGO; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING PROCESS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0030344532     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1996.tb00388.x     Document Type: Article

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