Abuse Obscured: An Ethnographic Account of Emergency Nursing in Relation to Violence Against Women

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 95-115

  Varcoe, Colleen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b LANGARA COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DENIAL; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSE ABUSE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0035296095     PISSN: 08445621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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