Midwives' group supervision and the influence of their continuity of care model - a pilot study

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 400-408

  Severinsson, Elisabeth ^a   Haruna, Megumi ^b   Friberg, Febe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competence; Focus group; Midwife; Nursing management; Qualitative methods; Supervision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDWIFE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NORWAY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NORWAY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING, SUPERVISORY; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 77956127870     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01106.x     Document Type: Article

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