Compare the nurse's role in the care of clients with specific mental health problems including the interdisciplinary team approaches. Discuss professional boundary issues in psychiatry and nursing. Describe the treatment modalities, including pharmaco- therapeutics. Understand the role and approaches to mental illness from the Alliance for the Mentally Ill family members. W.B. Saunders Company.
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