How nurses understand and care for older people with delirium in the acute hospital: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-176

  Schofield, Irene ^a   Tolson, Debbie ^a   Fleming, Valerie ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute care; Aged care; Critical theory; Risk

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIRIUM; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIRIUM; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84860291098     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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