Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 6 , Pages 338-348 , December 2008

Intensive care nurses’ encounters with multicultural families in Norway: An exploratory study

  • Sevald Høye

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Hedmark University College, N-2418 Elverum, Norway
    • Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Nursing, Hedmark University College, N-2418 Elverum, Norway. Tel.: +47 62430202; fax: +47 62430300.
    • ,
  • Elisabeth Severinsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway
    • This paper was developed when the author was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Midwifery, Child & Family Health, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.

,Accepted 26 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.03.007

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