Appropriate Nursing Home Nurse Hours per Resident Day in Korea: A Secondary Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 569-579

  Shin, Juh Hyun ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Nursing home; nursing staff; optimization; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; HUMAN; INSURANCE; KOREA; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REGISTERED NURSE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NURSE; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSES; NURSING HOMES; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT, HEALTH CARE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; WORKFORCE;

EID: 85069849583     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12498     Document Type: Article

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