Nursing staff numbers and their relationship to conflict and containment rates on psychiatric wards-A cross sectional time series Poisson regression study

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-20

  Bowers, Len ^a   Crowder, Martin ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coercion; Conflict; Containment; Inpatients; Mental health nursing; Safety; Self harm; Staffing levels; Violence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MANPOWER; NURSING STAFF; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855899334     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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