Mental Health Nursing
An Evidence Based Introduction
- Steven Pryjmachuk - University of Manchester, UK
Mental Health
This book introduces you to the core skills and essential knowledge you need to deliver high-quality care.
Mental Health Nursing is a practical, values- and evidence-based resource which will guide and support you through your pre-registration mental health nursing programme and into your own practice.
Dedicated chapters focus on the major mental health problems, and are clearly structured so that you can quickly and easily identify what you want learn about helping people with, for example, depression, anxiety, psychosis, or acute mental health problems.
The most up-to-date theories, as well as mental health policies and law from all four countries of the UK, are explained accessibly by experienced lecturers and nurse practitioners who show you through real-life case scenarios how you can use your newly-acquired knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality care yourself. You will also be encouraged - through regular reflection and discussion points - to see things with a critical eye and to engage in and drive on the debates that make mental health nursing such an exciting field to be studying and working in.
Set within a framework which emphasises and makes clear the core skills, values and knowledge-base you need to become capable mental health nurse, you will find this book a vital companion as you progress through your studies and onto helping people confidently in everyday life.
This is a new refreshing text bookthat is clear and easy to undestand. Being a Scot I was pleased to see the inclusion of Scots' law as often this is not refferred to in many mental health nursing books. I liked the review of the theoretical perspective but was bit taken aback with the example homosexuality for aversion therapy. Chpt 3 was really good as in brings many current issues to the forefront. The range of topics covered are broad enough to give the reader a good insight and understanding of ther problems associated with emotional well being. It is a great pity that we still feel the need to apply diagnostic labels as in my view it only serves to perpetuate sterotyping and stigma. This would be my only critism in that diagnostic labels are equally appllied across the age continuum. I like the use of the reflective boxes,always useful, the general lay out is good.
On the whole a very good addition to the library of text dealing with this topic.
This is a straight forward text that enables returnees to mental health nursing make the transition to a more contemporary response to mental health , updating and making links to evidence based practice compared to when they left practice ,which can be between 5-20 years.
