Nurses' attitudes towards the care of the dying

Terminally ill patients and their families describe hospital care as nonsupportive to their needs during the final phase of life. Nurses generally are not comfortable with a supportive role when caring for the dying and tend to adhere to a curative role. The purpose of this descriptive, correlationa...

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Main Author: Garossino, Candance Jo
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29709