Nurses and their patients
Subtitle: informing practice through psychodynamic insights
By: edited by Louise de Raeve, Mic Rafferty, Mary Paget
Publisher: M & K Update Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cumbria [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781907830310; 9781905539314; 9781282319738; 9786612319730
Subjects: Nurse and patient; Nurse-Patient Relations; MEDICAL; Nursing; Nurse & Patient
Description: Research has shown that a patient's emotional state can definitely affect the physical processes of disease and recovery. For patients undergoing hospital treatment, their relationships with nursing staff may have a major influence on their emotions and thus affect their ability to cope with their condition. This book explores the importance of the nurse-patient relationship in the light of psychoanalytic theory. Written by contributors from many different nursing backgrounds (ranging from mental health to paediatrics to palliative care), Nurses and Their Patients also includes a number of practical case studies and a section on research and clinical supervision. Anyone involved in caring for patients will find this book helpful, inspiring and thought-provoking.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Theory; title: pt. 2. Case studies; title: pt. 3. The wider context : research and supervision.