NICU nurses' ambivalent attitudes in skin-to-skin care practice

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kymre, Ingjerd G ^a  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Developmental care; Kangaroo Mother Care; NICU nursing; Parentinfant separation; Phenomenology; Reflective lifeworld research; SSC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENMARK; DEVELOPMENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KANGAROO CARE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN NURSING; NICU NURSING; NORWAY; NURSING STAFF; PARENT; PARENT-INFANT SEPARATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFLECTIVE LIFEWORLD RESEARCH; SSC; SWEDEN; TOUCH;

DEVELOPMENTAL CARE; KANGAROO MOTHER CARE; NICU NURSING; PARENT-INFANT SEPARATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; REFLECTIVE LIFEWORLD RESEARCH; SSC;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NEONATAL NURSING; NORWAY; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PARENTS; SWEDEN; TOUCH;

EID: 84894548842     PISSN: 17482623     EISSN: 17482631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/qhw.v9.23297     Document Type: Article

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