Recovering from the psychological impact of intensive care: How constructing a story helps

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 281-288

  Williams, Susan Lecky ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Intensive care follow up; Narrative processing; Person centred nursing; Post traumatic stress; Story telling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NARRATION;

EID: 79952118713     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2009.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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