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Essential Mental Health Nursing Skills
- 1st Edition - May 14, 2007
- Authors: Madeline O'Carroll, Alistair Park
- Editor: Maggie Nicol
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 2 3 4 - 3 5 2 6 - 6
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book will help to identify the skills and resources that students already have… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book will help to identify the skills and resources that students already have and show how these can be developed into the essential skills needed for nursing in the mental health practice environment. Essential Mental Health Nursing Skills draws on the policy and theory underpinning mental health nursing but focusses on the practical aspects, providing an easily understandable guide to what to do and how to do it. It also provides a practical framework that can be applied in any setting. Examples are given to show how skills can be applied across the diversity of modern mental health nursing. Essential Mental Health Nursing Skills is also designed to be taken into the practice environment so that it can easily be referred to it when learning a skill.
identifies the skills essential for the mental health nurse provides an easy to understand guide to ‘what to do and how to do it’ draws on the policy and theory but concentrates on the essential skills and their application in practice shows how the skills can be applied across mental health nursing designed to be taken into the practice environment to refer to when learning a skillexamples from practice are included to help illustrate the material
pre-registration students of mental health nursing
1 IntroductionSECTION 1 ESSENTIAL SKILLS2 Therapeutic relationships3 Observation4 Taking on different roles5 ReflectionSECTION 2 THE PROCESS OF CARE6 Communication7 Assessment8 Care delivery and interventions9 Improving physical wellbeing10 Managing careAPPENDIX: CLINICAL OBSERVATION SKILLS
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 14, 2007
- Imprint: Mosby Ltd.
- eBook ISBN: 9780723435266
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Maggie Nicol
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, School of Community & Health Sciences, City University, London, UKAP
Alistair Park
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer and Pre-Registration Programme Leader, Mental Health Nursing St. Bartholomew's School of Nursing, City University; London, UK