From critical care to comfort care: The sustaining value of humour

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1088-1095

  Dean, Ruth Anne Kinsman ^a   Major, Joanne E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Ethnography; Humour; Nursing; Palliative care; Team work

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; EMPATHY; HUMOR; INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE; PATIENT CARE;

CRITICAL CARE; EMPATHY; MANITOBA; NURSES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 40449113337     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02090.x     Document Type: Article

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