Knowledge and practice of end-of-life care among nurses in a Teaching Hospital in Nigeria

International Journal of Palliative Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 194-199

  Ingwu, Justin Agorye ^a   Ohaeri, Beatrice ^b   Nwaiku, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

End of life care; Knowledge; Nurses; Practice; Southeastern Nigeria

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANPOWER; NIGERIA; NURSE; STATISTICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERMINAL CARE; UNIVERSITY; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; PALLIATIVE NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84966335394     PISSN: 13576321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/ijpn.2016.22.4.194     Document Type: Article

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