Asian Nursing Research
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 83-94 , September 2007

Nurses' Job Satisfaction and Patient Falls

  • Cecilia D. Alvarez, DNP, RN

      Affiliations

    • Nurse Manager, Coronary ICU, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
    • ,
  • Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

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doi: 10.1016/S1976-1317(08)60011-0

Asian Nursing Research
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 83-94 , September 2007

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