Rationing of nursing care interventions and its association with nurse-reported outcomes in the neonatal intensive care unit: A cross-sectional survey

BMC Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Rochefort, Christian M ^a,b,c   Rathwell, Bailey A ^d   Clarke, Sean P ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL CHARLES LEMOYNE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Care rationing; Comfort care; Cross sectional survey; Donabedian; Neonatal Extent of Work Rationing Instrument; Neonatal intensive care unit; Neonatal pain; Readiness for hospital discharge; Registered nurses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988346541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-016-0169-z     Document Type: Article

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