Managing heart failure in the long-term care setting: Nurses' experiences in Ontario, Canada

Nursing Research

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 357-365

  Strachan, Patricia H ^a   Kaasalainen, Sharon ^a   Horton, Amy ^a   Jarman, Hellen ^b   D'elia, Teresa ^c   Van Der Horst, Mary Lou ^a   Newhouse, Ian ^d   Kelley, Mary Lou ^e   Mcainey, Carrie ^a   Mckelvie, Robert ^f   Heckman, George A ^g  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Nurse Practitioner Primary Health Care Geriatric Medicine Consultation Service St Mary's General Hospital   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^d LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; complex adaptive systems; heart failure; long term care; nursing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; HEART FAILURE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FOCUS GROUPS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEART FAILURE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; ONTARIO; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84907023674     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: 15389847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000049     Document Type: Article

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