Washing the patient: Dignity and aesthetic values in nursing care

Nursing Philosophy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 186-200

  Pols, Jeannette ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dignity; Empirical ethics of care; Ethnography; Mental health; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATH; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; ESTHETICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHT; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING;

BATHS; CONCEPT FORMATION; ESTHETICS; ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHIATRIC NURSING;

EID: 84878977021     PISSN: 14667681     EISSN: 1466769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nup.12014     Document Type: Article

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