End of life issues action: Impact of education

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Kurz, Jane M ^a   Hayes, Evelyn R ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Death; End of life; Nurses; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH ANXIETY SCALE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING PRACTICE; REGISTERED NURSE; SCORING SYSTEM; TERMINAL CARE; TIME OF DEATH; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EDUCATION, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33746910592     PISSN: 1548923X     EISSN: 1548923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1548-923X.1189     Document Type: Article

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