Decisional involvement among nurses: Governmental versus private hospitals

Health Science Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-27

  Ahmed, Manal Z ^a   Safadi, Ellen G ^b  

^a ZARQA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b Nursing Education ^*  (Jordan)

Author keywords

Decisional involvement; Dissonance in the actual and preferred decisional involvement; Nurses; Shared governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875170493     PISSN: 11087366     EISSN: 1791809X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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