High technology and nursing: Ethical dilemmas nurses and physicians face on high-technology units in Norway

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-195

  Bunch, Eli Haugen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Ethical dilemmas; Grounded theory; High technology units; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORWAY; STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; ETHICS, NURSING; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NORWAY;

EID: 0036717183     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2002.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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