Sleep Inquiry: A Look with Fresh Eyes
Image the Journal of Nursing ScholarshipPublished 1 September 1993
Shannon Spenceley
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A review of nursing research into the impairment of sleep in the critically ill is presented and it is asserted that in order to fully explicate the phenomena from a nursing perspective, research is needed that focuses upon the meaning of the phenomenon to the patient.
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A review of nursing research into the impairment of sleep in the critically ill is presented. The author asserts that in order to fully explicate the phenomena from a nursing perspective, research is needed that focuses upon the meaning of the phenomenon to the patient.
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