Physician-assisted dying: Are education and religious beliefs related to nursing students' attitudes?

Journal of Nursing Education

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-96

  Margalith, Ilana ^a   Musgrave, Catherine F ^b   Goldschmidt, Lydia ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BENEFICENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSING EDUCATION; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; AGE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STUDENT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; RELIGION; STUDENTS, NURSING; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0037313256     PISSN: 00223158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0148-4834-20030201-10     Document Type: Article

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