Listening to the voices of patients with cancer, their advocates and their nurses: A hermeneutic-phenomenological study of quality nursing care

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 436-442

  Charalambous, Andreas ^a   Beadsmoore, Alan ^b  

^a I)Rena   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hermeneutic phenomenology; Interpretation theory; Patients with cancer; Quality nursing care; Ricoeur

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATION; CYPRUS; EMPATHY; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASM; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CYPRUS; EMPATHY; FAMILY; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 56949105664     PISSN: 14623889     EISSN: 15322122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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