Description: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.Special Features: Written in the context of latest policy developments such as the National Service FrameworksDiscusses the role of the mental health nurse in the assessment and management of riskExplores an increasingly important and timely subject in mental health practicePractical focus, with case studies throughoutWritten by experts in the fieldWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing. To get started finding Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Release
2010
ISBN
1282371010
Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing
Description: 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.Special Features: Written in the context of latest policy developments such as the National Service FrameworksDiscusses the role of the mental health nurse in the assessment and management of riskExplores an increasingly important and timely subject in mental health practicePractical focus, with case studies throughoutWritten by experts in the fieldWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing. To get started finding Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.