Mental health nursing
By: Duane F. Pennebaker, guest editor.  Alzheimer's disease / Ivo L. Abraham, guest editor
Contributors: Pennebaker, Duane F., ed,; Abraham, Ivo L. ed.
Series: Nursing clinics of North America -- v.29, no.1
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Psychiatric nursing; Geriatric nursing; Alzheimer's disease
Other titles: Alzheimer's disease
Notes: "March 1994"

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: Cultural competence in psychiatric mental health nursing: a conceptual model.; The changing HIV/AIDS epidemic: emerging psychosocial challenges foer nurses.; Crafting mental health policy.; Dual diagnosis: comorbid substance abuse or dependency and mental illness.; Federal inmates: a unique psychiatric nursing challenge.; Child psychiatric nursing: moving into the 21st century.; Geropsychiatric nursing: present issues and future challenges.; Mental health issues and African-Americans.- -The Mexican-American migrant farmworker family: mental health issues.; Caring for families of psychiatric patients.; Alzheimer's disease and nursing: new scientific and clinical insights.; Frequency, distribution, and risk factors for Alzheimer's disease; Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease.; Caring for people with Alzheimer's disease using the conceptual model of progressively lowered stress threshold in the clinical setting.; Interventions for treating disruptive behavior in demented elderly people.- -Care environments for patients with Alzheimer's disease.; Alzheimer's special care units.; Interventions with family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease