Rapid Mental Health Nursing

A concise, pocket-sized, A-Z rapid reference handbook on all the essential areas of mental health nursing, aimed at nursing students and newly qualified practitioners.

• Covers a broad range of mental health disorders, approaches interventions and conditions
• Easy to locate practical information quickly in a pocket sized, rapid reference format
• The topics and structure are mapped on to the NMC’s (2010) Standards for Pre-registration Nursing Education and their required essential skills and knowledge.

Keywords: Antipsychotics; Antidepressants; Interviewing; assessment; Mental health; Communication; Empathy; Clinical; Decision making; Clinical Observations; Risk; Diagnosis; Classification; Discharge Planning; Documentation; Electroconvulsive Therapy; Elimination; Infection Control; Leadership; Lifelong Learning; Aggression; Violence; Medicines Management; medication; Professional Standards; Mental Health Law; Consent; Human Rights Act; Mental Capacity; Nutrition; Fluid; Care; Psychiatric; Wellbeing; Interventions; Psychological; psychology; Therapies; Cognitive Behavioural; Therapy; Counselling; Family; Group; Mindfulness; Psychodynamic; Solution focused; Recovery; Reflection; Research; Evidence-based Practice; Suicide; Self-harm; Time Management; Therapeutic Relationships; Values-based Practice; Acute Confusional States; Alcohol Misuse; Generalised; Anxiety; Bipolar Affective; Bereavement; Grief; Children Adolescent; Depression; Dementia; Pregnancy; Drug Misuse; Eating Disorders; Functional Disorders; Learning Disabilities; Neuropsychiatry; Obsessive-Compulsive; Personality; Panic; Phobias; Sexual; Abuse; Disorders; Schizophrenia; Sleep; Stress; Asylum seekers; refugees; Gender; Older Adults; Spirituality; Religion; Sexuality; homeless    , Mental Health, Introductions to Nursing, Mental Health, Introductions to Nursing