Iranian intensive care unit nurses' moral distress: A content analysis

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 464-478

  Shoorideh, Foroozan Atashzadeh ^a   Ashktorab, Tahereh ^a   Yaghmaei, Farideh ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Content analysis; intensive care unit; moral distress; nurse experience; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863197290     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733012437988     Document Type: Article

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