From the guest editors - Geropsychiatric inpatient care: An important and challenging area of nursing practice

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-9

  Smith, Marianne ^a,b   Specht, Janet K ^a   Buckwalter, Kathleen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NURSING; OCCUPATION; PATIENT CARE; SKILL;

EID: 12144280606     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840590883573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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