An institutional ethnography of nurses' stress

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1353-1378

  McGibbon, Elizabeth ^a   Peter, Elizabeth ^b   Gallop, Ruth ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

distress; ethnography; gender; nursing; stress; workplace

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77956515322     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732310375435     Document Type: Article

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