Exploring performance obstacles of intensive care nurses

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-518

  Gurses, Ayse P ^a   Carayon, Pascale ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care units; Nurses; Patient safety; Performance obstacles; Qualitative; Quality of working life; Workload

Indexed keywords

NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

PATIENT SAFETY; PERFORMANCE OBSTACLES; QUALITATIVE; QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE; WORKLOAD;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; SAFETY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 60149103884     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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