Establishing a trusting nurse-immigrant mother relationship in the neonatal unit

Background:In the neonatal intensive care unit, immigrant parents may experience even greater anxiety than other parents, particularly if they and the nurses do not share a common language.Aim:To explore the complex issues of trust and the nurse–mother relationship in neonatal intensive care units w...

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Authors: Kynø, Nina Margrethe (Author) ; Hanssen, Ingrid (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2022
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-71
Further subjects:B neonatal care
B empirical approaches
B Qualitative Research
B existentialist
B ethics and children in care
B clinical ethics
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