Exploring social-based discrimination among nursing home certified nursing assistants

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Travers, Jasmine L ^a   Teitelman, Anne M ^b   Jenkins, Kevin A ^c   Castle, Nicholas G ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

caregivers; discrimination; health inequities; nursing home care; older adult; racism; residential care

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; HUMAN; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RACISM; RESIDENTIAL CARE; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; MALE; NURSING HOME; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING ASSISTANTS; NURSING HOMES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 85070269026     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12315     Document Type: Review

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