Patients' perceptions of nurses' skill

Critical Care Nurse

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 24-37

  Wysong, Peggy Rupp ^a   Driver, Evelyn ^a  

^a Goshen General Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROGRESSIVE PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; THINKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CRITICAL CARE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANA; INPATIENTS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROGRESSIVE PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING;

EID: 77950970261     PISSN: 02795442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4037/ccn2009241     Document Type: Article

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