Some ethical conflicts in emergency care

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 548-560

  Jiménez Herrera, Maria F ^a   Axelsson, Christer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advance life support; caring; emergency department; ethical conflicts; nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFLICT; EMERGENCY NURSING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84939618973     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733014549880     Document Type: Article

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