Nurses' judgments regarding seclusion and restraint of psychiatric patients: A social judgment analysis

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-201

  Holzworth, R James ^a   Wills, Celia E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Judgment; Restraint; Seclusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

CUES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSES; PATIENT ISOLATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 0033144720     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199906)22:3<189::AID-NUR2>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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