Nurses' lifestyle behaviours, health priorities and barriers to living a healthy lifestyle: A qualitative descriptive study

BMC Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Phiri, Lindokuhle P ^a   Draper, Catherine E ^a   Lambert, Estelle V ^a   Kolbe Alexander, Tracy L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lifestyle behaviours; Nurses' health; Perceptions; Shift workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988867450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-014-0038-6     Document Type: Article

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