The real-life practice of acute inpatient mental health nurses: An analysis of 'eight interrelated bundles of activity': Feature

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 330-340

  Deacon, Maureen ^a   Fairhurst, Eileen ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Mental health; Nurses' roles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MODEL; NURSING;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, NURSING;

EID: 56649103449     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2008.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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