A search for the therapeutic dimensions of nurse-patient interaction

  • Steven Ersser
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Abstract

This chapter will introduce the issues, method and interim findings of the first stage of fieldwork from an ongoing study designed to explore the views of nurses and patients on how the nursing provided is believed to affect the welfare of patients in hospital.

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Therapeutic Dimension Emotional Labour Patient Participant Emotional Display Deep Acting 
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