Of vigilance and invisibility – being a patient in technologically intense environments

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 151-158

  Almerud, Sofia ^a   Alapack, Richard J ^b   Fridlund, Bengt ^a   Ekebergh, Margaretha ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Caring relationship; Critical illness; Intensive care; Nursing; Phenomenology; Technology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SWEDEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 35748929432     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2007.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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