Nursing staff and nursing students' emotions towards homosexual patients and their wish to refrain from nursing, if the option existed

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-26

  Röndahl, Gerd ^a   Innala, Sune ^b   Carlsson, Marianne ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assistant nurse; Emotion; Homophobia; Nurse; Refrain from nursing; Social desirability; Student

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; GUILT; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SWEDEN; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HATE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; MIGRATION; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ANGER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HATE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEGATIVISM; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN;

EID: 2442666814     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2004.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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