Psychiatric Nursing Revisited

ISBN-13: 9781861560865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 330 str.

Ray Higgins; Keith Hurst; Gerald Wistow

Opis

A detailed study of acute mental health nursing and patient activity, this book explores such areas as: how recent cases of mentally ill people committing violent offences have fuelled public anxiety; the chequered history of community care policy; why, despite the introduction of Project 2000 in 1989, nurse education problems continue; job satisfaction and the lack of it; the difficulties with primary nursing; clinical supervision; the barriers to effective management and leadership; the changed nature of nurses' professional relationships, particularly with medical staff; patient care, assessment, care plans, nursing interventions and the Care Programme Approach (APA); and discharge and aftercare.

Spis treści

An overview.

Setting the scene.

Research methods.

The hospital care context.

Management and leadership.

Caring for patients.

Summary of findings.

References.

Appendices.

Blurb

Psychiatric Nursing Revisited is a detailed and empirical study of acute mental health nursing and patient activity that joins a family of similar successful studies, such as Altschul (1972); Towell (1975); Cormack (1976, 1983); Faulkner et al (1994) and Hurst (1993, 1995). The far–ranging recommendations made by the authors, based on their findings, make this book an essential resource for all those who nurse, manage or teach in the field of psychiatric nursing.