Resident-to-Resident Aggression in Nursing Homes: Social Worker Involvement and Collaboration with Nursing Colleagues

Health and Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e101-e109

  Bonifas, Robin Patchell ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interprofessional collaboration; nursing homes; resident to resident aggression; social work roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939807043     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlv040     Document Type: Article

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