Municipal night nurses' experience of the meaning of caring

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 599-612

  Gustafsson, Christine ^a   Asp, Margareta ^a   Fagerberg, Ingegerd ^a  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Care of older people; Caring in nursing; Gerontological care; Night nursing; Phenomenological hermeneutics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONTROL; EMPATHY; ETHICS; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING HOME; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; SWEDEN;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EMPATHY; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; NIGHT CARE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING HOMES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 70249126570     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733009106652     Document Type: Article

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