Delegation within municipal health care

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-541

  Bystedt, Maria ^a   Eriksson, Maria ^a,b   Wilde Larsson, Bodil ^a,c  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b The Community of Eda Charlottenberg   (Sweden)

^c INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Delegation; Municipal healthcare; Registered nurses; Unlicensed personnel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TEACHER; URBAN POPULATION; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELEGATION, PROFESSIONAL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSES; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79955958734     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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