Registered nurses' experience of delegating the administration of medicine to unlicensed personnel in residential care homes

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 21-22, 2016, Pages 3189-3198

  Gransjön Craftman, Åsa ^a   Grape, Charlotte ^a   Ringnell, Katarina ^a   Westerbotn, Margareta ^a,b  

^a SOPHIAHEMMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

delegation; medicine administration; older people; registered nurse; residential care homes; unlicensed assistant personnel

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICINE; NURSING INTERVENTION; PATIENT SAFETY; PURPOSIVE SAMPLE; REGISTERED NURSE; RESIDENT; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESPONSIBILITY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD; DRUG THERAPY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELEGATION, PROFESSIONAL; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; NURSES; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84979544406     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13335     Document Type: Article

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