The Relationship to Death as a Source of Stress for Nurses on a Coronary Care Unit.

Price, Trevor R.; Bergen, Bernard J.

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ERIC Number: EJ171279

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Publication Date: 1977

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The Relationship to Death as a Source of Stress for Nurses on a Coronary Care Unit

Price, Trevor R.; Bergen, Bernard J.

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 8, 3, 229-37, 77

This paper focuses on stress felt by nurses over responsibility for controlling illness and death which indicated an unconscious confusion between the feeling of being responsible for the care of an ill or dying patient and the feeling of being responsible for the occurrence of the patient's illness or death. (Author)

Descriptors: Death, Health Personnel, Hospitals, Nurses, Patients, Psychological Needs, Responses, Social Influences, State of the Art Reviews, Stress Variables

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