Responding to 'Difficult' Patients: Manipulation, sexual provocation, aggression - How can you manage such behaviors?

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 26-34

  Nield Anderson, Leslie ^a   Minarik, Pamela ^a   Dilworth, Jeannie ^a,b   Jones, Janice ^a,c   Nash, Paula ^a,d   O'Donnell, Kristin ^a,e   Steinmiller, Elizabeth ^a,f  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW BRITAIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Yale University School of Medicine   (United States)

^d Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital   (United States)

^e Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EID: 0347656744     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000446-199912000-00038     Document Type: Article

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