Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 90-98 , April 2009

A phenomenological study to understand the experiences of nurses with regard to brainstem death

,Accepted 15 June 2008.

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☆ At the time of this work Christina worked in the Intensive care unit in the Institute of neurological sciences in Glasgow.

PII: S0964-3397(08)00067-0

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.06.001

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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