How haematological cancer nurses experience the threat of patients' mortality

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2175-2184

  Leung, Doris ^a   Esplen, Mary Jane ^b,c   Peter, Elizabeth ^a   Howell, Doris ^a,d   Rodin, Gary ^a,e   Fitch, Margaret ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b De Souza Institute   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Haematological cancer nurses; Hermeneutics; Nurse education; Palliative care; Professional development; Psychosocial nursing; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANADA; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESUSCITATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; ONTARIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84865956206     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05902.x     Document Type: Article

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