Creating a curtain of protection: Nurses' experiences of grief following patient death

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 122-129

  Gerow, Lisa ^a   Conejo, Patricia ^a   Alonzo, Amanda ^a   Davis, Nancy ^a   Rodgers, Susan ^a   Domian, Elaine Williams ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Care of dying patients; Hermeneutics; Nurse coping; Nurse grief; Nurse patient relations nurse patient relationship; Phenomenology; Qualitative methodology qualitative research; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONFLICT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LOVE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMBOLISM; TERMINAL CARE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GRIEF; HUMANS; LOVE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77954184663     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2010.01343.x     Document Type: Article

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