164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse team, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients. Whether patient problems stem from mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behaviour, difficult patients place extra demands on nurses both professionally and personally. Caring for difficult patients requires both... Read more
1. Mental Status Assessment 2. Substance Abuse 3. Delirium 4. Psychiatric Diagnoses 5. Setting Limits 6. The Nurse's Authority 7. Manipulation, Clinging, Sexual Provocation, Anger and Violence -The Feelings they Evoke and the Interventions they may Require 8. The Ethics of Limit Setting 9. Families 10. Communicating with Doctors - the Difficult and the Easy 11. The Nurse and the Dying Patient 12. Nurses and Stress 13. Getting Psychiatric Consultation
Biography
Manos, Peter; Braun, Joan
