Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 196-205 , August 2007

Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of protocol-directed weaning—A qualitative study

  • Britt Sætre Hansen

      Affiliations

    • University of Stavanger, Norway
    • Acute Clinic of Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Box 8100, N-4068 Stavanger, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Kong Haraldsgate 49, N-4041 Hafsfjord, Norway. Tel.: +47 51519138; fax: +47 51519932.
    • ,
  • Elisabeth Severinsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway
    • University Hospital of Stavanger, Box 8100, N-4068 Stavanger, Norway
    • This study was developed when I was a visiting professor at the Centre for Midwifery, Child & Family Health, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia.

,Accepted 4 March 2007.

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PII: S0964-3397(07)00021-3

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.03.001

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 196-205 , August 2007

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