Consolation in conjunction with incurable cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Langegard, Ulrica ^a   Ahlberg, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; KINESICS; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 67649210414     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/09.ONF.E99-E106     Document Type: Article

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