Student nurses' de-escalation of patient aggression: A pretest-posttest intervention study

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 699-708

  Nau, Johannes ^a,b   Halfens, Ruud ^c   Needham, Ian ^d   Dassen, Theo ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Evang Bildungszentrum fur Pflegeberufe Stuttgart gGmbH (Protestant Centre of Nursing Education Stut   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Centre of Psychiatry Rheinau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggression management; De escalation; Education; Intervention study; Nursing; Students; Workplace violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; TEACHING; VIDEORECORDING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING, DIPLOMA PROGRAMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; PATIENT SIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS, NURSING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 77951023260     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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