Innovative solutions: Leading the way: An innovative approach to support nurses on general care units with an early nursing intervention team

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-20

  Daly, Mary Lu ^a,b   Powers, Jeanne ^a,c   Orto, Vicky ^a,c   Rogers, Marlene ^a,c   Dickinson, Tina ^a,c   Fabris, Michele ^a,c   Honan, Michelle ^a,c  

^a ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Early Nursing Intervention Team (ENIT) Program   (United States)

^c ENIT ^*

Author keywords

Clinical emergencies; Early nursing intervention team; Rapid response teams

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; RESUSCITATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; NURSING SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESUSCITATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845885132     PISSN: 07304625     EISSN: 15388646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003465-200701000-00006     Document Type: Review

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