'Easier said than done': Empowering dialogues with patients at the pain clinic - The health professionals' perspective

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 804-812

  Tveiten, Sidsel ^a,b   Meyer, Ingrid ^a  

^a Akershus University College ^*  (Norway)

^b OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Empowerment; Focus group interviews; Health professional; Pain clinic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NURSE ADMINISTRATORS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 70349519049     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2008.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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