The manual handling of the aggressive patient: A review of the risk of injury to nurses: Practice development

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 395-400

  Stubbs, B ^a,b  

^a Mental Health Physiotherapist   (United Kingdom)

^b Townsend Division   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injury; Management of aggression; Manual handling; Musculoskeletal disorder; Physical intervention

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; WORKPLACE;

AGGRESSION; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RISK FACTORS; WORKPLACE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 63849095692     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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