Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 222-232 , August 2008

Patient's self-determination in intensive care—From an action- and confirmation theoretical perspective: The intensive care nurse view

  • Katarina E. Meijers (RN MSN)

      Affiliations

    • Intensive Care Unit, South Stockholm General Hospital, 118 83 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 8616 2402.
    • ,
  • Barbro Gustafsson (BA RNT PhD Associate professor)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, The Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, 23300, 141 83 Huddinge, Sweden
    • Tel.: +46 8524 838 51.

,Accepted 14 January 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.01.003

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 222-232 , August 2008

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