Davis Manual of Psychosocial Nursing in General Patient Care

This is a guide to psychosocial problems encountered by nurses when treating hospitalized patients in medical-surgical settings. It evaluates psychosocial responses to the stresses of illness, and helps determine the relationship of psychological manifestations to the underlying disease process.

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This is a pocket guide to psychological problems encountered by nurses when treating hospitalized patients in medical-surgical settings. It evaluates psychosocial responses to the stresses of illness, illness of a family member, hospitalization, or alterations in mental health, and provides clinically relevant interventions for dealing with them. Also considered is the relationship of psychological manifestations to the underlying disease process, and behavioural patterns suggesting a need to refer the patient to a psychiatrist, psychologist or clinical nurse specialist.