Intensive care nurses' encounters with multicultural families in Norway: An exploratory study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 338-348

  Høye, Sevald ^a,b   Severinsson, Elisabeth ^b  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Family member; Intensive care nurses; Interpretive content analysis; Multicultural

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; VISITORS TO PATIENTS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 54949141873     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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