Public health nursing practice with 'high priority' families: the significance of contextualizing 'risk'

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-38

  Browne, Annette J ^a   Hartrick Doane, Gweneth ^b   Reimer, Joanne ^a   MacLeod, Martha L P ^c   McLellan, Edna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d NORTHERN HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Clinical decision making; Families at risk; Family care; Nurse patient relationships; Public health nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRUST; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FAMILY; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRUST; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 77949334200     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2009.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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