What keeps nurses from the sexual counseling of patients with heart failure?

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 492-499

  Hoekstra, Tialda ^a   Lesman Leegte, Ivonne ^a   Couperus, Margriet F ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Jaarsma, Tiny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barriers; Heart failure; Nurses' attitudes; Sexual counseling; Sexual health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NETHERLANDS; NURSE; NURSE SURVEY OF SEXUAL COUNSELING OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL HEALTH;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIAC CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX COUNSELING;

EID: 84865608724     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: 15273288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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