The role and accountability of senior health care support workers in intensive care units

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 123-132

  Johnson, Martin ^a   Ormandy, Paula ^a   Long, Andrew ^a   Hulme, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Health Care Support Workers; Intensive care; Skill mix; Workload

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CAREER; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; LICENCE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSIBILITY; TRAINING;

EID: 2942678885     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0964-3397(04)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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