Finding positives after disaster: Insights from nurses following the 2010-2011 Canterbury, NZ earthquake sequence

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 174-181

  Johal, Sarbjit S ^a   Mounsey, Zoe R ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Mental health; Natural disasters; Nursing; Positives

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DISASTER; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EARTHQUAKE; EMPLOYER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NURSE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WELLBEING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NURSES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84953273850     PISSN: 15746267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aenj.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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