Conserving the vitality of suffering: Addressing family constraints to illness conversations

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 254-263

  Tapp, Dianne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac illness; Family nursing; Family systems nursing; Hermeneutics; Suffering; Therapeutic conversation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0035751644     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2001.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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