End-of-life care in nursing homes: The high cost of staff turnover

Nursing Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 163-166

  Tilden, Virginia P ^a   Thompson, Sarah A ^a   Gajewski, Byron J ^b   Bott, Marjorie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MANPOWER; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; TERMINAL CARE;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; NURSING HOMES; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84864843862     PISSN: 07461739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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