The language of risk: Common understanding or diverse perspectives?

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 551-557

  Clancy, Leonie ^a   Happell, Brenda ^a   Moxham, Lorna ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AGED; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SAFETY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84903447477     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2014.880139     Document Type: Article

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