Behind the scales: Child and family health nurses taking care of women's emotional wellbeing

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Shepherd, Marie Louise ^a  

^a DHHS   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child health nursing; Emotional well being; Ethnography; Manifest and latent functions; Qualitative; Trust

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTHER; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRUST;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTHERS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRUST;

EID: 79953034759     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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