Rapid Mental Health Nursing
Samenvatting
A concise, pocket–sized, A–Z rapid reference handbook on all the essential areas of mental health nursing, aimed at nursing students and newly qualified practitioners.
Covers a broad range of mental health disorders, approaches interventions and conditions
Easy to locate practical information quickly in a pocket sized, rapid reference format
The topics and structure are mapped on to the NMC s (2010) Standards for Pre–registration Nursing Education and their required essential skills and knowledge.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Essential skills and knowledge</p>
<p>Assessment 3</p>
<p>Care planning 5</p>
<p>Clinical decision–making 8</p>
<p>Clinical observations 10</p>
<p>Clinical risk in mental health 12</p>
<p>Communication 14</p>
<p>Diagnosis and classification 17</p>
<p>Documentation 19</p>
<p>Early intervention services 21</p>
<p>Electroconvulsive therapy 24</p>
<p>Elimination 25</p>
<p>Infection control 27</p>
<p>Leadership 29</p>
<p>Lifelong learning 31</p>
<p>Managing aggression and violence 34</p>
<p>Managing people 36</p>
<p>Managing risk 39</p>
<p>Medication 41</p>
<p>Medicines management 44</p>
<p>Mental health law 46</p>
<p>Nutrition and fluid management 50</p>
<p>Organising care 52</p>
<p>Physical well–being 54</p>
<p>Psychiatric examination 57</p>
<p>Psychological interventions 59</p>
<p>Psychological therapies 61</p>
<p>Recovery 64</p>
<p>Reflection 66</p>
<p>Research 68</p>
<p>Suicide and self–harm 71</p>
<p>Therapeutic relationships 74</p>
<p>Time management 76</p>
<p>Values–based practice 78</p>
<p>Conditions</p>
<p>Acute confusional state 85</p>
<p>Alcohol misuse 87</p>
<p>Anxiety and related conditions 89</p>
<p>Bipolar affective disorder 91</p>
<p>Child and adolescent mental health 92</p>
<p>Dementia 95</p>
<p>Depression 97</p>
<p>Disorders associated with pregnancy 99</p>
<p>Drug misuse 102</p>
<p>Eating disorders 104</p>
<p>Functional disorders in older adults 106</p>
<p>Learning disabilities in mental health 108</p>
<p>Neuropsychiatry 110</p>
<p>Personality disorders 112</p>
<p>Schizophrenia 114</p>
<p>Sexual disorders 117</p>
<p>Sleep disorders 119</p>
<p>Trauma and other stress–related conditions 122</p>
<p>Unresolved grief 124</p>
<p>Specific issues</p>
<p>Asylum seekers and refugees 131</p>
<p>Culture and ethnicity 132</p>
<p>Homelessness 133</p>
<p>Older adults 134</p>
<p>Safeguarding vulnerable adults 135</p>
<p>Sexual abuse 137</p>
<p>Sexuality and gender 138</p>
<p>Spirituality and religion 140</p>
<p>Appendices 141</p>
<p>Revision questions 150</p>
<p>Glossary 162</p>
<p>References, further reading and useful resources 168</p>
<p>Index 179</p>

