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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Bandura ( 1977 ) defined an aspect of cognition that allows us to evaluate what we can do . He called this quality self - efficacy , which he defined as our ability to perform specific tasks based on what we know .
Bandura ( 1977 ) defined an aspect of cognition that allows us to evaluate what we can do . He called this quality self - efficacy , which he defined as our ability to perform specific tasks based on what we know .
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DEFINITION OF AND RESEARCH ON LOSS AND GRIEF Loss Defined In defining loss within a broad context , we might state that it is an event that involves the involuntary separation from something we have possessed and perhaps treasured .
DEFINITION OF AND RESEARCH ON LOSS AND GRIEF Loss Defined In defining loss within a broad context , we might state that it is an event that involves the involuntary separation from something we have possessed and perhaps treasured .
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Gil ( 1975 ) broadened this formal definition by including Abuse is more difficult to define . ... In 1974 , however , the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect ( Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act , 1974 ) defined child ...
Gil ( 1975 ) broadened this formal definition by including Abuse is more difficult to define . ... In 1974 , however , the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect ( Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act , 1974 ) defined child ...
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Background for | 1 |
Stigma | 41 |
Practice Roles and Settings | 55 |
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