Health Professionals' Perspectives of Providing Care to People with Dementia in the Acute Setting: Toward Better Practice

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 300-308

  Borbasi, Sally ^a   Jones, Jacqueline ^a   Lockwood, Craig ^a   Emden, Carolyn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACUTE DISEASE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; DEMENTIA; FAMILY; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33749451629     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: 15283984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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