Nurses as moral practitioners encountering parents in neonatal intensive care units

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-64

  Fegran, Liv ^a   Helseth, Sølvi ^b   Slettebø, Åshild ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

L gstrup; Moral practice; NICU; Nurses; Parents

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN NURSING; PARENT; PREMATURITY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; NEONATAL NURSING; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS;

EID: 29144530991     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733006ne849oa     Document Type: Review

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