Nursing work and the use of nursing time

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 3269-3274

  Duffield, Christine ^a,b   Gardner, Glenn ^a,c   Catling Paull, Christine ^b  

^a Department of Nursing and Health Services Management ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nurses; Nursing activity; Nursing practice; Nursing workforce; Workforce issues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NURSING; TIME MANAGEMENT;

NURSING; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56149103820     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02637.x     Document Type: Article

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