Empowering staff nurses to use research to change practice for safe patient handling

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Krill, Candice ^a   Staffileno, Beth A ^b   Raven, Claudette ^a  

^a Lake Forest Hospital   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Engaging nurses in research; Nurses selecting lift equipment; Safe patient handling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860505833     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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