Spiritual assessment of patients with cancer: The moral authority, vocational, aesthetic, social, and transcendent model

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 745-751

  Skalla, Karen A ^a   McCoy, J Patrick ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; ESTHETICS; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MORALITY; NEOPLASM; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHAPLAINCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMPLOYMENT; ESTHETICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE'S ROLE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 33746222932     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/06.ONF.745-751     Document Type: Review

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