Pilot Study of an Instrument to Measure Attitudes to Palliative Care Practice in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing

Collegian

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 16-20

  Kain, Victoria J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

attitude scales; neonatal nursing; neonatal palliative care; temporal stability; test retest

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE SCALE; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; NURSING PRACTICE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PILOT STUDY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84893694220     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1322-7696(08)60568-5     Document Type: Article

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