Factors that enhance or impede critical care nurses' discharge planning practices

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 302-313

  Watts, Rosemary ^a   Gardner, Heather ^b   Pierson, Jane ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical care; Critical care nurses; Discharge planning; Discharge planning practices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MODEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD; TIME MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RECORDS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; TIME MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VICTORIA; WORKLOAD;

EID: 25844487890     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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