"Never again" stories of nurses: Dilemmas in nursing practice

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1191-1206

  Wolf, Zane Robinson ^a   Zuzelo, Patti Rager ^a  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acting incorrectly; Ethical dilemmas; Knowledge deficits

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICAL INCIDENTS METHOD; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING KNOWLEDGE; NURSING PRACTICE; POWERLESSNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; NURSES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749628466     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306292544     Document Type: Article

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