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 is an excellent text for student mental health nurses. Each chapter provides sufficient depth for the students to explore the heart of different areas of nursing.
Very good book that introduces students to the area of mental health nursing. It starts from the very basics and moves on from there.
Since reading the book and talking to colleagues within the college and lecturers at universities, have recently found that it is a recommended text for the first year of Mental Health Nursing course at the university.
It is clear to understand and has activities for discussion and to ensure understanding for the reader so can be used within a taught session or referred to.
At the back of the book there is a glossary with many of the terms needed although this is not overly large.
Will help with the extended essays next year by students who wish to go into this field of Nursing in the future, will recommend to the library within the college.
Provides a fantastic overview of the evidence base process in mental health nursing as well as a complete explanation for pre-reg students into the practices of the mental health nurse.
This is an extremely well written and concise text that covers almost everything the trainee nurse needs to know. It also then provides a good spring board in terms of developing themes and references for the student to move on to deeper more advanced levels of skill and knowledge. It is now a key text on our training course.
Focused on the new developments in mental health nursing. Highlights the key issues, new agenda and the developing roles of the mental health nurse. Makes it appealing to the the mental health nurse commencing their training.
Course about to be rewritten for validation in 2012.
i enjoyed this book particularly the chapters contained all the up to date core work / essential knowledge to understand about the subject area. therefore it provides a basis for the student to have enough understanding in order if they desire to explore areas further. well set out which was easy to follow / read - diagrams and tables used appropriately. book to recommend for my mental health students
This is a very good book for nurses working in the field and offers a different context to problems that arise.
This also covers mental health in a social context and explains that not all problems can be solved.
Instead it offers a more practical 'harm mimization 'approach to work based problems. A good book for any nurse working in the field.
Both myself and a number of colleagues consider this an excellent evidence based introductory text for the undergarduate programmes in mental health nursing
For a module aimed at non-mental health professionals, this was a useful and readable text that was able to convey the key points about and needs of the client group to clinicians whose focus is physical care.
