Perception of nurses about palliative care: Experience from South-West Nigeria
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Perception of Nurses about Palliative Care: Experience from South-West Nigeria
BACKGROUND Nurses play a major role all over the world in the palliative care team. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge and attitude of nurses toward palliative care in a tertiary level hospital in Nigeria. SUBJECTS AND METHODS SETTING This cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was carried out among nurses at a tertiary health care facility in Ado-Ekiti, South-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2141-9248
DOI: 10.4103/2141-9248.141532