Is there a need for a nurse emergency team for continuous renal replacement therapy?

Contributions to Nephrology

Volumn 156, Issue , 2007, Pages 191-196

  Baldwin, Ian ^a  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MANPOWER; MODEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

EID: 34247554509     PISSN: 03025144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/0000102083     Document Type: Article

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