Striving for Purity:Shared Understandings in Retired Swedish Care Providers’ Narratives on Nursing Care Around 1950

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 333-350

  Lindahl, Elisabeth ^a   Gilje, Fredricka ^b   Norberg, Astrid ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cleanliness; clear conscience; group dialogues; hermeneutics; nursing; order; purity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETIREMENT; SWEDEN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANECDOTES; EMPATHY; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; NARRATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETIREMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 16644390451     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898010104269243     Document Type: Article

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