Exploring factors associated with the incidence of sexual harassment of hospital nurses by patients

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-131

  Hibino, Yuri ^a   Hitomi, Yoshiaki ^a   Kambayashi, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender; Nurses; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STATISTICS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EID: 67650076261     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2009.01244.x     Document Type: Article

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