Emergency nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and experiential survey on advance directives

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 132-139

  Jezewski, Mary Ann ^a   Feng, Jui Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVING WILL; MALE; MANPOWER; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547700260     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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