Regulating hospital use: Length of stay, beds and whiteboards

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-26

  Heartfield, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beds; Governmentality; Hospital length of stay; Nursing practice; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSING; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BED OCCUPANCY; BEDS; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RECORDS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POSTMODERNISM; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 15944410984     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2005.00251.x     Document Type: Review

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