The role of the senior health care worker in critical care

Nursing in Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 151-158

  Ormandy, Paula ^a   Long, Andrew F ^a   Hulme, Claire T ^a   Johnson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical care; Delegated tasks; Evaluation; Role; Senior health care workers; Workforce development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ASSISTANT; ROLE PLAYING; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK;

CRITICAL CARE; DATA COLLECTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; NURSES' AIDES; ROLE;

EID: 4444295428     PISSN: 13621017     EISSN: 14785153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1362-1017.2004.00070.x     Document Type: Review

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