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Care of the difficult patient : a nurse's guide / Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2005.Description: 224 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415358231 (hbk.) :
  • 9780415358248 (pbk.) :
  • 9780415358248
  • 041535823X
  • 9780415358231
  • 0415358248
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.730699 MAN
LOC classification:
  • RT86.3 .M365 2005
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 610.730699 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205382

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.

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.

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