Treating children as people : exploring nurses’ practice to preserve children’s personal integrity
Serious illness and hospitalization threaten children's sense of self and alter their ability to act on their own behalf. Personal integrity, conceptualized as the capacity to sustain a sense of self and to live in congruence with one's own intentions and desires, is fundamental to being...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9736 |