Nurses' working time use - how value adding it is?

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1094-1105

  Antinaho, Tuula ^a,b   Kivinen, Tuula ^b   Turunen, Hannele ^a,c   Partanen, Pirjo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Central Finland Health Care District   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Inpatients; Nurses; Self report; Tertiary hospital; Value adding

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; ECONOMICS; FINLAND; HUMAN; LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; WORKPLACE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOCUMENTATION; FINLAND; HUMANS; LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES; TIME FACTORS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84946422633     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 13652834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12258     Document Type: Article

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