Nurse characteristics and attitudes to active voluntary euthanasia: A survey in the Australian Capital Territory

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-76

  Kitchener, Betty A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active voluntary euthanasia; Attitudes; Characteristics of nurses; Contact with the terminally ill; Ethics; Nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; TERMINAL CARE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0032111524     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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