Occupational stress among staff nurses: Controlling the risk to health

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 52-56

  Sharma, Parul ^a   Davey, Anuradha ^a   Davey, Sanjeev ^b   Shukla, Arvind ^a   Shrivastava, Kajal ^c   Bansal, Rahul ^a  

^a SUBHARTI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Muzaffarnagar Medical College and Hospital   (India)

^c HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

interpersonal relationship; Professional stress; staff nurse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920090458     PISSN: 09732284     EISSN: 19983670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.146890     Document Type: Article

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