Mental Health Nursing is written especially for the general nursing student, and provides a comprehensive coverage of all the relevant dimensions of practice for nursing in mental health. The text is rich in nursing practice examples, fictional cases from which nursing skills are observed, and is written to be engaging and accessible for undergraduate students.The book follows an evidence-based practice model and shows how to apply assessment processes to treatment practice, work with clients with a range of disorders, and apply nursing intervention strategies in order to achieve best practice outcomes.

Product Description: This text explored gay male carers experience of caring for their partner, brother or friend who had HIV/AIDS. Through using phenomenological methodology (van Manen, 1990), the day-to-day caring experiences were uncovered. The data gathered was then analysed through a nursing lens, with the concept of stigma as an anchoring point...read more

Product Description: The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture...read more