The art of nursing: Communication and self-expression

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-160

  Price, Sheri ^a   Arbuthnot, Elsa ^b   Benoit, Rosalind ^c   Landry, David ^c   Landry, Marilyn ^c   Butler, Lorna ^d  

^a IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aesthetic inquiry; Art in nursing; Nursing art

Indexed keywords

ART; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSING; REVIEW;

ART; COMMUNICATION; NURSING;

EID: 34249030879     PISSN: 08943184     EISSN: 15527409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894318407299577     Document Type: Review

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