Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 6 , Pages 349-358 , December 2008

The importance of critical care nurses’ caring behaviours as perceived by nurses and relatives

  • Elizabeth O’Connell

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  • Margaret Landers

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,Accepted 6 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.04.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 6 , Pages 349-358 , December 2008

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