Nurse dose as a concept

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-99

  Brooten, Dorothy ^a,c   Youngblut, JoAnne M ^a,b  

^a Nursing ^*  (United States)

^b School of Nursing   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare quality; Nurse dose; Nurse time, nurse staffing; Nurse patient ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MODELS, NURSING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33645137176     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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