TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manos,Peter J.
AU  - Braun,Joan
TI  - Care of the difficult patient: a nurse's guide 
SN  - 9780415358231 (hbk.) :
AV  - RT86.3 .M365 2005
U1  - 610.730699 MAN 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Nurse and patient
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Sick
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Nursing fundamentals & skills
KW  - thema
KW  - Nursing & ancillary services
N1  - 1. Mental status assessment -- 2. Substance abuse -- 3. Delirium -- 4. Psychiatric diagnoses -- 5. Setting limits --6.  The nurse\'s authority -- 7. Manipulation, clinging, sexual provocation, anger and violence: the feelings they evoke and the interventions they may require --8.  The ethics of limit setting --9.  Families --10.  Communicating with doctors: the difficult and the easy -- 11. The nurse and the dying patient -- 12. Nurses and stress -- 13. Getting psychiatric consultation
N2  - Whether patient problems stem from mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behaviour, difficult patients place extra demands on nurses both personally and professionally. This is a practical guide to dealing with these patients
ER  -