Taking aim at nurse stress: A call to action

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 96-100

  Kashani, Mariam ^a   Eliasson, Arn ^a   Chrosniak, Linda ^b   Vernalis, Marina ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY NURSING; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MILITARY PSYCHIATRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949405044     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00092     Document Type: Article

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