Mental illness in the nursing workplace: A collective autoethnography

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 021-033

  Kidd, Jacquie Dianne ^a,b   Finlayson, Mary P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Primary Mental Health Practitioner   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bullying; Hyphen; Mental illness; Nursing; Stigma; Stress; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WORKPLACE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEW ZEALAND; NURSES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79953003053     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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