Attitudes and experiences of nurses toward death and caring for dying patients in Turkey

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Cevik, Banu ^a,b   Kav, Sultan ^b  

^a Baskent Universitesi Ankara Hastanesi   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Caring for dying people; Death; Death attitude; End of life care; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMFORT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH ATTITUDE PROFILE REVISED SUBSCALE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DYING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FROMMELT ATTITUDE TOWARD CARING DYING PATIENT SCORE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TERMINAL CARE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NURSES; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TURKEY;

EID: 84887124142     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e318276924c     Document Type: Article

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