Job characteristics in nursing and cognitive failure at work

Safety and Health at Work

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-200

  Elfering, Achim ^a   Grebner, Simone ^b   Dudan, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive failure; Nurses; Occupational stress; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874506455     PISSN: 20937911     EISSN: 20937997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5491/SHAW.2011.2.2.194     Document Type: Article

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