Capacity for care: Meta-ethnography of acute care nurses' experiences of the nurse-patient relationship

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 760-772

  Bridges, Jackie ^a   Nicholson, Caroline ^b   Maben, Jill ^b   Pope, Catherine ^a   Flatley, Mary ^c   Wilkinson, Charlotte ^d   Meyer, Julienne ^d   Tziggili, Maria ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c St Joseph's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caring; Experiences; Hospitals; Literature review; Meta ethnography; Nurses; Professional patient relations; Qualitative research; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84874979143     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.12050     Document Type: Review

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