Staff nurses' appraisals and coping strategies in a critical incident

Although there was extensive literature pertaining to how nurses reacted to and coped with stressful encounters, there was little information about a specific kind of stress: critical incident stress (CIS). The purpose of this study was to describe how medical/surgical general duty nurses appraised,...

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Main Author: Appleton, Leanne Andrea
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1254