'Alone with my pain - it can't be explained, it has to be experienced'. A Norwegian in-depth interview study of pain in nursing home residents

International Journal of Older People Nursing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-33

  Gran, Siv Venke ^a   Festvåg, Line S ^a   Landmark, Bjørg Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Care of older people; Nursing home care; Pain management; Person centred practice

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; LONELINESS; NORWAY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; LONELINESS; NORWAY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 79952200988     PISSN: 17483735     EISSN: 17483743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-3743.2009.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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