Nursing best practice guidelines: Reflecting on the obscene rise of the void

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 394-403

  Holmes, Dave ^a   Murray, Stuart J ^b   Perron, Amélie ^a   McCabe, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baudrillard; Best practice guidelines; Critique; Evidence based movement; Foucault; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; NURSE; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL;

BENCHMARKING; CANADA; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NURSE ADMINISTRATORS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES; ONTARIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, NURSING;

EID: 42149136357     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2008.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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