The top eight issues Queensland Australia's aged-care nurses and assistants-in-nursing worried about outside their workplace: A qualitative snapshot

International Journal of Nursing Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 444-454

  Tuckett, Anthony ^a   Hegney, Desley ^a,b   Parker, Deborah ^a   Eley, Robert M ^c   Dickie, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; Environment; Nursing; Older people; Work and life balance

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; MANPOWER; NURSING ASSISTANT;

AGED; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; NURSES' AIDES; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 80053110567     PISSN: 13227114     EISSN: 1440172X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.2011.01966.x     Document Type: Article

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