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A search for the therapeutic dimensions of nurse-patient interaction

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Nursing as Therapy

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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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  1. Horton General Hospital, Oxford Polytechnic, UK

    Richard McMahon (Senior Nurse, Banbury and Lecturer Practitioner) (Senior Nurse, Banbury and Lecturer Practitioner)

  2. Nursing and Foundation Dean, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

    Alan Pearson (Professor) (Professor)

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Ersser, S. (1991). A search for the therapeutic dimensions of nurse-patient interaction. In: McMahon, R., Pearson, A. (eds) Nursing as Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3091-0_3

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