Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 On becoming a student mental health nurse -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- What is a profession? -- What is a nurse? -- How do mental health nurses organize their work? -- The recovery approach: why is the recovery approach relevant to mental health nurses? -- How mental health nurses use models in their practice -- Boundaries within the nurse-service user relationship -- Evidence-based practice -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 2 Fundamental skills of mental health nursing -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- The nursing process -- Assessment -- Care planning: the principles -- Evaluation of care-giving -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 3 Mental health law -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Mental health law -- The Mental Health Act, England and Wales -- Experiencing mental health legislation - a carer's story -- International mental health law -- Law and human beings -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 4 Community mental health nursing care of a person with complex needs -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Institutions and community care -- Clinical scenario: Anthony -- Assessment by CPN -- Care planning -- Implementation -- Practice -- Evaluation -- Discussion points -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 5 The nursing care of an adult in crisis with mental health problems -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Clinical scenario: Joyce -- Assessment -- Care planning -- Conceptual models in psychiatry -- Clinical scenario: Andrew -- Assessment -- Care Planning -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 6 Mental health nursing in a rehabilitation and recovery context -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Recovery? -- Clinical scenario: Anthony -- Planning -- Implementation -- Evaluation.

Clinical scenario: Joyce -- Planning: the Care Programme Approach -- Implementation - the importance of the therapeutic relationship in discharge planning -- Evaluation using the recovery approach -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 7 The nursing care of older people with mental health problems -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Clinical scenario: Albert -- Assessment -- Care planning -- Abuse and protection of vulnerable adults -- Clinical scenario: Vera -- Care planning -- Clinical scenario: Mrs Bibi -- Assessment -- Care planning -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 8 Mental health nursing in the community -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Clinical scenario: Paul -- Schizophrenia -- Ethnic issues and mental health services -- Nursing assessment -- Care planning -- Clinical scenario: Molly -- Anxiety -- Assessment -- Care planning -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 9 Additional skills for complex cases in mental health nursing -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Engaging young people with anorexia nervosa -- Clinical scenario: Sarah -- Care planning -- Clinical scenario: Charlie -- Care planning -- Clinical scenario: Tracy -- Care planning -- Working with service users who have experienced trauma -- Clinical scenario: Feodor -- Summary -- References and other sources -- Chapter 10 On becoming a qualified mental health nurse -- Aims -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Becoming a staff nurse -- Getting a job -- Developing your career -- What will be expected of you as a newly qualified mental health nurse? -- The mental health nurse as an employee -- Mental health nursing - future roles and responsibilities -- The future of mental health nursing -- A career in mental health nursing -- Conclusion by the editors -- References and other sources -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E.

F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z.

This is a case-based, service user centred textbook for mental health nursing students to use throughout their pre-registration studies. The essential theory required for nursing care is explored alongside real service users' views and fictional cases providing excellent transferable skills for practice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.