Journal article
Collective strategies to cope with work related stress among nurses in resource constrained settings: An ethnography of neonatal nursing in Kenya
- Abstract:
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Kenyan neonatal nurses are asked to do the impossible: to bridge the gap between international standards of nursing and the circumstances they face each day. They work long hours with little supervision in ill-designed wards, staffed by far too few nurses given the pressing need. Despite these conditions, a single neonatal nurse can be tasked with looking after forty sick babies for whom very close care is a necessity. Our 18-month ethnography explores this uniquely stressful environment in o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Science & Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 245
- Article number:
- 112698
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-21
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0277-9536
- Pmid:
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31811960
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1077649
- Local pid:
- pubs:1077649
- Deposit date:
- 2020-02-14
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- McKnight et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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