Mental Health Nursing: The Nurse-patient JourneyIn addition to comprehensive coverage of all standard topics in psychiatric nursing, the New Edition of this groundbreaking text offers unparalleled insights into the human side of mental illness. It enables readers to empathize with psychiatric patients and treat them with dignity and understanding. A unique, holistic approach prepares readers to care for all of their patients' needs physical, psychological, social, and spiritual.This second edition contains new, one-of-a-kind appendices on patient/family teaching and spiritual interventions, clinical practice guidelines for home care, testimonials from mental health nurses in a full range of settings, new, full-color brain scan images that depict visible differences in the brains of patients with certain mental illnesses, and much more. |
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The hospital grounds were dominated by a long building of four stories with many wards , characteristic of the Kirkbride architectural plan and frequently the basis of hospital construction from 1854 to 1914 ( Baxter & Hathcox , 1994 ) ...
The hospital grounds were dominated by a long building of four stories with many wards , characteristic of the Kirkbride architectural plan and frequently the basis of hospital construction from 1854 to 1914 ( Baxter & Hathcox , 1994 ) ...
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As the setting for the provision of health services , hospitals must provide a foundation for understanding and ... The American Hospital Association ( 1994 ) presents A Patient's Bill of Rights with the expectation that it will ...
As the setting for the provision of health services , hospitals must provide a foundation for understanding and ... The American Hospital Association ( 1994 ) presents A Patient's Bill of Rights with the expectation that it will ...
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The patient has the right to ask and be informed of the existence of business relationships among the hospital , educational institutions , other health care providers , or payers that may influence the patient's treatment and care .
The patient has the right to ask and be informed of the existence of business relationships among the hospital , educational institutions , other health care providers , or payers that may influence the patient's treatment and care .
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Contents
Background for | 1 |
Stigma | 41 |
Practice Roles and Settings | 55 |
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