Existential Care in Daily Nursing Practice

Elise C Tarbi1, Elizabeth G Broden, William E Rosa

  • 1Elise C. Tarbi is an assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Elizabeth G. Broden is a fellow in the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program in New Haven, CT, and has received funding from a National Institutes of Health training grant (5T32HS017589) to the Yale School of Public Health. William E. Rosa is assistant attending behavioral scientist, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. Adam Hayden is an independent scholar and unaffiliated patient advocate. Brianna E. Morgan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health in New York City. Contact author: Elise C. Tarbi, elise.tarbi@med.uvm.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

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