A central unifying focus for the discipline: Facilitating humanization, meaning, choice, quality of life, and healing in living and dying

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Willis, Danny G ^a   Grace, Pamela J ^a   Roy, Callista ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disciplinary focus; Healing; Health human science; Knowledge development; Meaning; Nursing knowledge; Nursing philosophy; Nursing practice; Ontology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; NOMENCLATURE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 58149356182     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ANS.0000311534.04059.d9     Document Type: Article

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