Turkish critical care nurses' views on end-of-life decision making and practices

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 334-342

  Badır, Aysel ^a   Topçu, İbrahim ^b   Türkmen, Emine ^a   Göktepe, Nilgün ^a   Miral, Mukaddes ^c   Ersoy, Nermin ^d   Akın, Esra ^e  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Bezmialem Foundation University   (Turkey)

^c Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate   (Turkey)

^d KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e IZMIR KATIP CELEBI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decision making; End of life care; Intensive care nursing; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946176664     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nicc.12157     Document Type: Article

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