Caring assessment in the Swedish ambulance services relieves suffering and enables safe decisions

International Emergency Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 113-119

  Wireklint Sundström, Birgitta ^a   Dahlberg, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment; Health care science; Participant observations; Patient perspective; Pre hospital emergency care; Reflective lifeworld research; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TRIAGE;

EID: 79958772681     PISSN: 1755599X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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