Nurses’ Strategies When Providing for Patients’ Aesthetic Needs:Personal Experiences of Aesthetic Means of Expression

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 22-33

  Wikström, Britt Maj ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; NURSING CARE; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ESTHETICS; NURSING CARE; PATIENTS;

EID: 0036479726     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105477380201100103     Document Type: Article

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