The experience of contemporary peacekeepers healing from trauma: Feature

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-63

  Ray, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contemporary peacekeepers; Healing; Nursing; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY NURSING; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RWANDA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOLDIER; SOMALIA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY NURSING; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NARRATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONTARIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSYCHOLOGY, MILITARY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RWANDA; SOMALIA; STEREOTYPING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 60049088255     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2009.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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