The inner door: Toward an understanding of suicidal patients

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1396-1404

  Tzeng, Wen Chii ^a   Yang, Cheng I ^b   Tzeng, Nian Sheng ^a   Ma, Hei Shan ^c   Chen, Lin ^d  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Taipei City Government   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN SPORT UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Ethnography; Mental health; Mental illness; Nurses; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MANPOWER; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955864150     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03002.x     Document Type: Article

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