'A heavy and blessed experience': A psychoanalytic study of community Macmillan nurses and their roles in serious illness and palliative care

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1297-1303

  Jones, Alun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer care; Clinical supervision; Communication; Community Macmillan nurses; Psychoanalysis; Serious illness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINAL CARE; WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0033257413     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.01223.x     Document Type: Article

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