'Thank you for helping me remember a nightmare I wanted to forget': qualitative interviews exploring experiences of death and dying during COVID-19 in the UK for nurses redeployed to ICU

'Thank you for helping me remember a nightmare I wanted to forget': qualitative interviews exploring experiences of death and dying during COVID-19 in the UK for nurses redeployed to ICU
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“谢谢你帮助我记住一场我想忘记的噩梦”:对调到 ICU 的护士进行定性访谈,探讨英国 COVID-19 期间的死亡和临终经历

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10.1080/13576275.2022.2144356
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2022
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Pilbeam C
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