Enhancing patient safety in a healing environment

Topics in Advanced Practice Nursing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Seifert, Patricia C ^a   Hickman, Deborah S ^a  

^a INOVA HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; COLOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERGONOMICS; ESTHETICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; ILLUMINATION; NOISE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY; SKILL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUND; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 22544467023     PISSN: 15352250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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