Mental workload and fatigue in special nursing services;Carga mental y fatiga en servicios especiales de enfermería

Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 477-492

  Gutiérrez, José Luis González ^a   Jiménez, Bernardo Moreno ^b   Hernández, Eva Garrosa ^b   López, Almudena López ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demographic variables; Fatigue; Mental workload; Nursing; Work factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 32344449717     PISSN: 01200534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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