Can Education and Staff-based Participatory Research Change Nursing Practice in an Era of ED Overcrowding? A Focus Group Study

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 290-298

  Tanabe, Paula ^a   Gisondi, Michael A ^a   Barnard, Cynthia ^a   Lucenti, Martin J ^a   Cameron, Kenzie A ^a  

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Author keywords

ED overcrowding; Focus group; Nursing practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; NURSING, SUPERVISORY; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 67649650273     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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