Care of the difficult patient : a nurse's guide / Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manos, Peter J. (Peter James), 1943-

Contributor:

Braun, Joan, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurse and patient.

Nursing--Psychological aspects.

Nursing.

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Nursing Care--methods.

Nursing Care--psychology.

Nurse-Patient Relations.

Patients--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Nursing Care--methods.

Nursing Care--psychology.

Nurse-Patient Relations.

Patients--psychology.

Physical Description:

152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Developed collaboratively by a doctor and nurse, this is the first text to deal specifically with nursing difficult patients. Whether problems stem from mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behaviour, difficult patients place extra demands on nurses both professionally and personally. Caring for difficult patients requires technical and interpersonal skills, and the ability to exercise power and set limits.

This text presents invaluable practical recommendations, well founded in experience and supported by relevant literature, for nurses coping with challenging, real world situations. Covering pertinent issues such as manipulative and sexually inappropriate behaviour, anger and violence, delirium, setting limits, death and dying, difficult doctors and psychiatric diagnoses, the text includes learning points, further reading, case studies and dialogue examples to highlight good (and bad) practice. Ideal for pre- and post-registration nurses, this reference provides concrete direction on the management of difficult patients.

Contents:

Mental status assessment

Substance abuse

Delirium

Psychiatric diagnoses

Setting limits

The nurse's authority

Manipulation, clinging, sexual provocation, anger and violence: the feelings they evoke and the interventions they may require

The ethics of limit setting

Families

Communicating with doctors: the difficult and the easy

The nurse and the dying patient

Nurses and stress

Getting psychiatric consultation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

041535823X

0415358248

OCLC:

60360664

Publisher Number:

9780415358231

9780415358248