Care to the end-stage patient: Help and obstacles perceived by Intensive Care nurses;Cuidados del paciente al final de la vida: Ayudas y obstáculos que perciben las enfermeras de Cuidados Intensivos

Enfermeria Intensiva

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-14

  Del Barrio Linares, M ^a   Jimeno San Martin L ^a   Lopez Alfaro P ^a   Ezenarro Muruamendiaraz, A ^a   Margall Coscojuela, M A ^b,c   Asiain Erro, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cares to the patient at the end of life; Critical cares; End stage patients; ICU; Nurses attitudes; Nursing care quality; Perceptions of nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 34249712406     PISSN: 11302399     EISSN: 15781291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1130-2399(07)74384-5     Document Type: Article

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