Unburdening suffering: Responses of psychiatrists to patients' suicide deaths

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 620-636

  Talseth, Anne Grethe ^a   Gilje, Fredricka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolation; Ethical reflection; Grief; Psychiatrists; Suicidal death; Thematic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; ETHICS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SELF EVALUATION; SUICIDE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHIATRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 34548446760     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733007080207     Document Type: Review

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