Organizing context: Nurses' assessments of older people in an acute medical unit

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-57

  Latimer, Joanna ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnography; Identity; Interests; Nursing assessment; Organization

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 0032012261     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.1998.510043.x     Document Type: Article

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