Transforming desolation into consolation: The meaning of being in situations of ethical difficulty in intensive care

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 357-373

  Söderberg, Anna ^a   Gilje, Fredricka ^b   Norberg, Astrid ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

at homeness; consolation; desolation; enrolled nurses; ethics; intensive care; narratives; phenomenological hermeneutics; presence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CONFLICT; ETHICS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICS; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING, PRACTICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE; UNCERTAINTY; VIRTUES;

EID: 0033182953     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096973309900600502     Document Type: Article

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