In this unique book, Mike Wash shares a wealth of personal wisdom drawn from real life experiences. The examples come from a variety of contexts, including home, leisure and work. He has worked in health, education and business settings. He tells impressively honest stories of gain and of loss, of celebration and of suffering, of joy and of regret, of achievement and of failure. In the telling of these truths we find the inspiration to reflect upon the rich tapestry of our own lives: our values, beliefs, relationships, choices, decisions, failures, successes, hopes and dreams. The book gives...

In this book we have attempted to identify skills which are needed by the psychiatric nurse, and in doing so to identify a body of knowledge unique to the professional psychiatric nurse. The book has been written to demonstrate the basis of a skills approach for both the experienced and the inexperienced nurse to build upon, for we believe that psychiatric nurses, due to both their training and their particular mixture of interests, are weil equipped to be in the forefront of psychiatry as a developing art and science. We hope that this book in some small way helps this development. Some of...