Left alone - Swedish nurses' and mental health workers' experiences of being care providers in a social psychiatric dwelling context in the post-health-care-restructuring era. A focus-group interview study

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 427-435

  Kristiansen, Lisbeth ^a,b   Hellzén, Ove ^a   Asplund, Kenneth ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Group dwellings; Mental health nurses; Nurse roles; Qualitative approaches; Role definition; Thematic content analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MANPOWER; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NURSES; SWEDEN;

EID: 77955766345     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2009.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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