Expert practice: The interventions used by a Community Mental Health Nurse with carers of dementia sufferers

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-27

  Gunstone, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carers; Community mental health nurse; Continuity; Dementia; Ethnography; Nursing interventions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORK;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0033071306     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2850.1999.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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