Moving between rooms - moving between life and death: Nurses' experiences of caring for terminally ill patients in hospitals

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 2034-2043

  Johansson, Kristina ^a,b   Lindahl, Berit ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b Section of Rheumatology   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute care; Nurses; Nursing; Palliative care; Qualitative studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862161409     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03952.x     Document Type: Article

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