Nursing activities, nurse staffing and adverse patient outcomes as perceived by hospital nurses

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1584-1593

  Hinno, Saima ^a   Partanen, Pirjo ^a   Vehviläinen Julkunen, Katri ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adverse patient outcome; Hospital care; Nurse staffing; Nursing activities; RN survey; Workload

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FINLAND; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FINLAND; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NURSING; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861235026     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03956.x     Document Type: Article

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