Clients with mental health problems who sexualize the nurse-client encounter: The nursing discourse

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 616-624

  Higgins, Agnes ^a   Barker, Philip ^b   Begley, Cecily M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Mental health nursing; Psychiatric nursing; Sexual harassment; Sexuality; Unwanted sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECORDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 59449085860     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04899.x     Document Type: Article

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