Constructing mentally ill inmates: Nurses' discursive practices in corrections

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 191-204

  Perron, Amélie ^a   Holmes, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrections; Deconstruction; Discourse; Forensic psychiatry; Nursing notes; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FORENSIC NURSING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING PRACTICE; PRISONER; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

FORENSIC NURSING; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RECORDS; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING;

EID: 79960821047     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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