Sars: Key factors in crisis management

Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-65

  Tseng, Hsin Chao ^a   Chen, Thai Form ^a   Chou, Shieu Ming ^b  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b National Taichung Nursing College   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contagious disease; Crisis management; Epidemic; Hospital survival; Sars

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS INFECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEADERSHIP; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRUST;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALE; NURSE ADMINISTRATORS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING, SUPERVISORY; QUARANTINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN; TRUST;

EID: 22044442117     PISSN: 16823141     EISSN: 1948965X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jnr.0000387526.99770.1e     Document Type: Article

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