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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By providing a climate of unconditional positive regard , patients are able to experience whatever feeling they have without fear of reprisal or disapproval . Empathetic understanding is the third critical attitude and occurs when the ...
By providing a climate of unconditional positive regard , patients are able to experience whatever feeling they have without fear of reprisal or disapproval . Empathetic understanding is the third critical attitude and occurs when the ...
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Peggy decided that not being able to get out of bed several times a month was highest on the list . Then she said that she wanted to work on her relationship with men because there was one guy at her part - time job whom she thought she ...
Peggy decided that not being able to get out of bed several times a month was highest on the list . Then she said that she wanted to work on her relationship with men because there was one guy at her part - time job whom she thought she ...
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Venting these feelings in a safe place is very therapeutic . a By — the patient will admit that a power greater than himself will be able to help him maintain sobriety and heal broken relationships . 1. Educate the patient about shame ...
Venting these feelings in a safe place is very therapeutic . a By — the patient will admit that a power greater than himself will be able to help him maintain sobriety and heal broken relationships . 1. Educate the patient about shame ...
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Background for | 1 |
Stigma | 41 |
Practice Roles and Settings | 55 |
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