Nursing students' experiences of their first encounter with death during clinical practice in Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 15-16, 2010, Pages 2280-2290

  Huang, Xuan Yi ^a   Chang, Jen Yu ^b   Sun, Fan Ko ^c   Ma, Wei Fen ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Death; Dying; Nurses; Nursing; Students; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TAIWAN; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS, NURSING; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955949658     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03090.x     Document Type: Article

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