Nurse-Expressed Empathy, Patient Outcomes, and Development of a Middle-Range Theory

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-76

  Olson, Joanne ^a   Hanchett, Effie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Nurse patient relationships; Theory construction model building

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MODEL; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031085881     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1997.tb01143.x     Document Type: Article

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