A Survey of nurses' beliefs about the medical emergency team system in a Canadian tertiary hospital

American Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-83

  Bagshaw, Sean M ^a   Mondor, Eugene E ^a   Scouten, Cindy ^a   Montgomery, Carmel ^b   Slater MacLean, Linda ^a   Jones, Daryl A ^c   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^d   Gibney, R T Noel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Capital Health Edmonton   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; EMERGENCY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MANPOWER; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALBERTA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL CARE; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS;

EID: 77949529511     PISSN: 10623264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2009532     Document Type: Article

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