Defining "disasters" with implications for nursing scholarship and practice

Disaster Management and Response

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 59-63

  NeSmith, Elizabeth G ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING DISCIPLINE; NURSING THEORY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

DISASTERS; HUMANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING THEORY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SPECIALTIES, NURSING; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33645553204     PISSN: 15402487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dmr.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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