Religion and nurses' attitudes to euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-318

  Gielen, Joris ^a   van den Branden, Stef ^b   Broeckaert, Bert ^b  

^a Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion and World View   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Euthanasia; Nurses; Physician assisted suicide; Religion; World view

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED SUICIDE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NURSE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 68149131333     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733009102692     Document Type: Review

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