Reliability and Validity Assessment of the Job Attitude Scale

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 465-472

  Flannery, Kelly ^a   Resnick, Barbara ^a   Galik, Elizabeth ^a   Lipscomb, Jane ^a   McPhaul, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; NURSING ASSISTANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; NURSES' AIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84871919573     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: 15283984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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