Care of the difficult patient
Subtitle: a nurse's guide
By: Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun.
Contributors: Braun, Joan, 1944-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Nurse and patient.; Nursing -- Psychological aspects.; Sick -- Psychology.; Nursing Care -- methods.; Nursing Care -- psychology.; Nurse-Patient Relations.; Patients -- psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mental status assessment; title: Substance abuse; title: Delirium; title: Psychiatric diagnoses; title: Setting limits; title: The nurse's authority; title: Manipulation, clinging, sexual provocation, anger and violence: the feelings they evoke and the interventions they may require; title: The ethics of limit setting; title: Families; title: Communicating with doctors: the difficult and the easy; title: The nurse and the dying patient; title: Nurses and stress; title: Getting psychiatric consultation.