Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing
This is an overview of the history of mental illness, advances in treatment, current issues in mental health, and the role of the psychiatric nurse.
This is an overview of the history of mental illness, advances in treatment, current issues in mental health, and the role of the psychiatric nurse.
The alarming fact that 300 nurses in the UK had committed suicide in the past seven years was recently highlighted in the press.
Nursing students have high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression which could develop into mental health problems.
In this guide are nursing care plans for schizophrenia including six nursing diagnosis. Nursing care plan goals for schizophrenia involves recognizing schizophrenia, establishing trust and rapport, maximizing the level of functioning, assessing positive and negative symptoms, assessing medical history and evaluating support system.
A Paddock Wood mental heath nurse was left scarred for life when a Romanian armed robber doused boiling water in her face.