Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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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 field

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Utgivningsdatum2009-04-02
Mått173 x 246 x 15 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405152860

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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.

Foreword vContributors vii1 Introduction 1Phil Woods and Alyson M. Kettles2 Risk Assessment and Management 9John Cordall3 The Theory of Risk 49Alyson M. Kettles and Phil Woods4 Instrumentation 77Phil Woods and Alyson M. Kettles5 Risk to Others 109Phil Woods6 Risk to Self 143B. Lee Murray and Eve Upshall7 Risk of Substance Misuse 199Lois Dugmore8 Conclusions 243Alyson M. Kettles and Phil WoodsIndex 253