Care of the difficult patient
Subtitle: a nurse's guide
By: Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun.
Contributors: Braun, Joan, 1944-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780415358231; 9780415358248
Subjects: Nursing Care -- methods; Nursing Care -- psychology; Patients -- psychology; Nurse-Patient Relations
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.