Uncertainty in critical illness and the unexpected: important mediators in the process of nurse-family communication

ABSTRACT Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand, based on the Mishel’s Theory of Uncertainty in Illness and the Theory of Transitions of Meleis, in which way uncertainty in illness and the unexpected mediated the process of nurse-family communication and are translated into lived ex...

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Main Author: Anabela Pereira Mendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2019-11-01
Series:Escola Anna Nery
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-81452020000100212&tlng=en