Communicating with children in A & E: What skills does the nurse need?

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 137-141

  Wood, I ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY NURSING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY NURSING; HUMANS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PEDIATRIC NURSING;

EID: 0031178512     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-2302(97)90005-9     Document Type: Article

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