Insights of Nurses about Assault in Hospital-based Emergency Departments

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-254

  Levin, Pamela F ^a   Hewitt, Jeanne Beauchamp ^b   Misner, Susan Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupational hazard; Violence; Workplace health settings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; CHICAGO; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031614826     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1998.tb01300.x     Document Type: Article

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