A survey of ward nurses attitudes to the Intensive Care Nurse Consultant service in a teaching hospital

Australian Critical Care

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 100-109

  McIntyre, Tammie ^a   Taylor, Carmel ^a   Eastwood, Glenn M ^a   Jones, Daryl ^a,b   Baldwin, Ian ^a,c   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a,b,d  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical care outreach; Intensive care; Liaison nurse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CONSULTATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CASE MANAGEMENT; CONSULTANTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 84861483810     PISSN: 10367314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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