'Veiling sexualities': A grounded theory of mental health nurses responses to issues of sexuality

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-317

  Higgins, Agnes ^a   Barker, Phil ^b   Begley, Cecily M ^a,c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Nursing and Midwifer ^*

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Mental health; Psychiatric nursing; Sexual health; Sexual rights; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; TABOO;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SEXUALITY; TABOO;

EID: 42449125975     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04586.x     Document Type: Article

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