More than medical treatment: The patient's first encounter with prehospital emergency care

International Emergency Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-192

  Elmqvist, Carina ^a   Fridlund, Bengt ^a   Ekebergh, Margaretha ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confirmation; Encounter; Narratives; Nursing; Phenomenology; Prehospital emergency care; Temporality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INJURY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NARRATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SWEDEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46749154615     PISSN: 1755599X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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