Knowing your 'dydoe' from your 'Madonna': An emergency nurse guide to body piercing

Emergency Nurse

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 26-35

  Hayward, Mike ^a   Tindale, Rabina ^b,c  

^a Acute and Emergency Care Department

^b Dewsbury District Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c RCN Emergency Care Association

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY PIERCING; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; WOUND HEALING;

BODY PIERCING; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SKIN CARE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 40949150308     PISSN: 13545752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7748/en2008.03.15.10.26.c6474     Document Type: Article

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