Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing

This timely and accessible text explores how nurses can enhance their skills, and improve their practice so that risk is assessed and managed safely and effectively.

Risk assessment and management is a core element of mental health practice, and all nurses need to be aware of the risks surrounding them and their patients in order to create a safe working environment.

Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing explores issues including context and definitions of risk, risk assessment tools and techniques, strategies for preventing risk situations, suicide, self-harm, neglect, forensic aspects of risk, substance misuse, ethical considerations, victimology, and more.

Key features:

• Written in the context of latest policy developments such as the National Service Frameworks
• Discusses the role of the mental health nurse in the assessment and management of risks
• Explores an increasingly important and timely subject in mental health practices
• Practical focus, with case studies throughouts
• Written by experts in the fields

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Woods, Phil; Kettles, Alyson M.

ISBN:

978-1-40-515286-0

Specialty:

• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

264

Publication Year:

2009