Psychiatric Nursing

Part 1 Frameworks and foundations: the history of psychiatric nursing; general theoretical frameworks for psychiatry; a conceptual framework for psychiatric nursing; the legal structure; dealing with ethical problems in psychiatry; cultural aspects of psychiatric care. Part 2 The process of nursing: assessment of the psychiatric patient; nursing interventions; planning and evaluation of psychiatric programmes. Part 3 Psychopathology and nursing interventions: nursing of the patient with substance abuse; nursing of children and adolescents with psychiatric problems; nursing patients with organic mental disorders; the care of the mentally handicapped.