21st Century challenges faced by nursing faculty in educating for compassionate practice: Embodied interpretation of phenomenological data

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 746-750

  Curtis, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compassion; Embodied interpretation; Faculty; Idealism; Nurse teachers; Phenomenology; Poetry; Reality

Indexed keywords

EMPATHY; FORECASTING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EMPATHY; ENGLAND; FACULTY, NURSING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, NURSING; TEACHING;

EID: 84879837655     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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