Palliative Care: knowledge and feelings of the nurse working in internal medicine and infectious and contagious diseases units of a general hospital: a qualitative study

This study originated from the author’s concern about providing care to patients at life’s end, as she observed that this care was not approached in a holistic manner. Regardless of the patients’ prognoses, the nurse is the health care professional who spends most of the day next to the patients and...

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Main Authors: Marina Borges Teixeira, Loraine Martins Diamente
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa 2008-11-01
Series:Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing
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Online Access:http://www.uff.br/objnursing/index.php/nursing/article/view/j.1676-4285.2008.1914