Coping processes in a multidisciplinary healthcare team - A comparison of nurses in cancer care and hospital chaplains

European Journal of Cancer Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-48

  Ekedahl, M ^a   Wengstrom Y ^b  

^a Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Counseling School of Theology

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coping processes; Hospital chaplains; Nurses; Religious orientation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLERGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXISTENTIALISM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHAPLAINCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CLERGY; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMANS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 37549030516     PISSN: 09615423     EISSN: 13652354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2007.00801.x     Document Type: Article

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