Mental Health Nursing
An Evidence Based Introduction
- Steven Pryjmachuk - University of Manchester, UK
Mental Health
This book introduces you to the core skills and essential knowledge you need to deliver high-quality care.
Mental Health Nursing is a practical, values- and evidence-based resource which will guide and support you through your pre-registration mental health nursing programme and into your own practice.
Dedicated chapters focus on the major mental health problems, and are clearly structured so that you can quickly and easily identify what you want learn about helping people with, for example, depression, anxiety, psychosis, or acute mental health problems.
The most up-to-date theories, as well as mental health policies and law from all four countries of the UK, are explained accessibly by experienced lecturers and nurse practitioners who show you through real-life case scenarios how you can use your newly-acquired knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality care yourself. You will also be encouraged - through regular reflection and discussion points - to see things with a critical eye and to engage in and drive on the debates that make mental health nursing such an exciting field to be studying and working in.
Set within a framework which emphasises and makes clear the core skills, values and knowledge-base you need to become capable mental health nurse, you will find this book a vital companion as you progress through your studies and onto helping people confidently in everyday life.
'This exciting new book for pre-registration students of mental health nursing has a fresh, contemporary feel, and engages the reader throughout with points for reflection and learning. With chapter contributions from an impressive team of leaders in the field this deserves to be widely read and used, and I commend this publication without reservation.'
Dr Ben Hannigan
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies
'In the UK, mental health nursing is moving with the times. Students and registered nurses need high-quality, up-to-date textbooks that are not only moving with the times but are also moving the profession forward. This excellent book, which uses the best up to date evidence, is doing just that. It needs to find its way onto the bookshelves of every student mental health nurse.'
Dr Theo Stickley
University of Nottingham School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy
'Organised clearly and logically so that you can find information quickly, this book is perfect for the modern mental health nursing student and will guide you through your course studies and placements.'
Gemma Barnacle,
Pre-registration Nursing student, University of Chester
This is a very informative and worthy read for all mental health nurses not only students. I would recommend this book mental health professionals who are seeking to deepen thir knowledge of mental health issues and how they can be treated.
This book is essential reading for all pre-registration mental health nursing students. It is clear and concise and evidence based. I shall be recommending this book to all my students .
A very good text that provides an important insight into mental health nursing, is contemporary and is generally an easy read.
The text contains useful knowledge, contemporary in nature that will be of benefit to those studying mental health.
Essential introduction to contemporary Mental Health Nursing. Not only covers the theoretical and policy context within which modern mental health care is situated, but also discusses the practical approaches to a variety of mental health difficulties.
A very comprehensive, well written book, simple to understand and extremely relevant to the practice of Mental health nursing. The book is highly recommended as essential to students undertaking the module "Becoming a Mental Health Nurse""
A clear introduction to mental health nursing. I liked the idea of looking at how we work with people with particular mental health difficulties from the perspective of 'helping' them. The contextual material at the beginning enables students to understand these later chapters in the context of different perspectives on mental health, the mental health nurse and developments in mental health nursing.
I gave this book to a student to read and use. She reported that it was highly relevant to her course, easy to read and up to date. She found the style and text approachable and at the correct level. The content was pitched well for undergraduate students. As a result I am now happy to recommend this text to students.
Did not receive the book in time to make changes to the module descriptor. Considering it for next year.
