Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing -

Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing

Phil Woods, Alyson M. Kettles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2009
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5286-0 (ISBN)
47,80 inkl. MwSt
Written in the context of latest policy developments such as the National Service Frameworks Discusses the role of the mental health nurse in the assessment and management of risk Explores an increasingly important and timely subject in mental health practice Practical focus, with case studies throughout Written by experts in the field.
Risk assessment and management is a core element of mental health practice, and all nurses need to be aware of the risks surrounding them and their patients in order to create a safe working environment.  This timely and accessible text explores how nurses can enhance their skills, and improve their practice so that risk is assessed and managed safely and effectively.  Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing explores issues including context and definitions of risk, risk assessment tools and techniques, strategies for preventing risk situations, suicide, self-harm, neglect, forensic aspects of risk, substance misuse, ethical considerations, , victimology, risk to others and risk to self.

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Written in the context of latest policy developments such as the National Service Frameworks
Discusses the role of the mental health nurse in the assessment and management of risk
Explores an increasingly important and timely subject in mental health practice
Practical  focus, with case studies throughout
Written by experts in the field

Dr Phil Woods is Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. He has an extensive personal portfolio of forensic and mental health related research. He is a well known author of mental health and forensic nursing articles and books. Dr Alyson M. Kettles is Research Officer (Mental Health) for NHS Grampian in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is also Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. She has published widely on forensic mental health nursing and has an extensive portfolio of mental health research.

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Risk Assessment and Management.

Chapter 3: The Theory of Risk.

Chapter 4: Instrumentation.

Chapter 5: Risk to Others.

Chapter 6: Risk to Self.

Chapter 7: Risk of Substance Misuse.

Chapter 8: Conculsions

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.4.2009
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 173 x 246 mm
Gewicht 472 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
ISBN-10 1-4051-5286-9 / 1405152869
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-5286-0 / 9781405152860
Zustand Neuware
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