Case study: Creating a healthy workplace in a surgical trauma intensive care unit

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 232-241

  Reed, Charles C ^a   Gerhardt, Susan D ^a   Fonseca, Ileana ^a   Robertson, Kathryn ^a  

^a University Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Healthy workplace; Nursing shortage; Retention; Shared decision making; Transformation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEUROSURGERY; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING SHORTAGE; NURSING THEORY; NURSING UNIT; PATIENT CARE; REGISTERED NURSE; REVIEW; STAFF TRAINING; SURGICAL NURSING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 67651071034     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CNQ.0b013e3181ab924e     Document Type: Review

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