Offers a way to understand the subject of psychiatric nursing from a practical clinical perspective.

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A comprehensive guide to the care of patients in the mental health setting. Giving a picture of the role of the mental health nurse, this handbook gives a summary of the prevalence, features and nursing management of the major mental disorders.

Incorporates changes to the UK policy context of mental health nursing, the legal framework of mental health care and the 2006 Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing, From Values to Action . This title emphasises the importance of understanding lifestyle interventions to promote mental health.

Designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of psychiatric nursing care plans. This clinical companion provides access to the information students need to know as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting.

Drawing from the classification of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) and the list of NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, this text covers a range of disorders, their psychopathology, and appropriate nursing interventions with rationales. It includes many therapeutic and nontherapeutic dialogue examples.

This text explores the current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally-disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and competence. It explores the practical issues facing nurses and intervention strategies that can be used.

Explores the role and actions of mental health professionals as part of the process of recovery. This book focuses on ways in which direct care staff can assist people with mental health problems. It addresses two key components of recovery access and inclusion to life opportunities and acceptance.

Learning disability nurses play a leading role in the care and support of people with learning disabilities. This title explores the theory and practice of learning disability nursing, with an emphasis on understanding the experiences of learning disability nurses as they seek to practice effectively.

Mental Health Nursing Skills is a highly evidence-based, practical textbook designed so students can develop and apply the skills required for practice. Written in response to the Chief Nursing Officer's review of mental health nursing, this text translates theory into clear practical skills supported by useful examples, tips and online resources.

Helps you to identify the skills and resources that students already have and shows how these can be developed into the essential skills needed for nursing in the mental health practice environment. This book draws on the policy and theory underpinning mental health nursing, focusing on the practical aspects.

This is a case-based, service user centred textbook for mental health nursing students to use throughout their pre-registration studies. The essential theory required for nursing care is explored alongside real service users' views and fictional cases providing excellent transferable skills for practice.

Considers the emotional and relational component of forensic mental health nursing. This book covers a number of specialist forensic areas from a psychodynamic perspective, such as women's services, services for people with personality disorders, intensive care, and high security psychiatric hospitals.

Offers information needed to confidently pass the psychiatric and mental health nursing certification exam. This text provides causes, signs and symptoms, nursing diagnoses, and nursing interventions. It also contains quick-reference charts, appendices, selected references, and a posttest in the same format as the actual exam.

Contains 52 nursing care plans that address the most commonly encountered behaviors in psychiatric-mental health nursing. This book focuses on interdisciplinary care, community resources, communication, and assessment.

Covers seventy specific disorders and includes an overview of mental health nursing. This book includes numerous icons that provide tips on patient care, research, cultural considerations, and the news in psychopharmacology. It provides descriptions of the mental health nurse's scope of practice, areas of concern, and the nursing process.

The assessment of mental health problems is vital to the successful planning and treatment for people suffering from them. This unique book provides a step-by-step giude to conducting this assessment, giving student nurses a humanistic perspective on the subject. This best-seller, written by one of the most experienced authors in this field has been updated to reflect new concepts and ideas.

Introduces the reader to the different types of nurse prescribing and how they can be used in practice. This handbook explores the different types of medicines commonly prescribed for major disease groups and helps nurse prescribers to understand the practical application of prescribing as seen in clinical practice.