Norms and Nurse Management of Conflicts: Keys to Understanding Nurse-Physician Collaboration

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-72

  Keenan, Gail M ^a   Cooke, Robert ^b   Hillis, Stephen L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Information and Decision Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Conflict management; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE;

EID: 0031989675     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199802)21:1<59::AID-NUR7>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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