The Lived Experience of Contentment: A Study Using the Parse Research Method

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 330-338

  Parse, Rosemarie Rizzo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Contentment; Human becoming theory; Parse method

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; WOMEN;

EID: 0035496659     PISSN: 08943184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08943180122108481     Document Type: Article

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