Product Description: This reference provides quick-access information for virtually every psychiatric nursing diagnosis. It includes: definition; key assessment criteria; defining characteristics; associated medical diagnoses; expected outcomes; and interventions and rationales...read more

Interviewing patients and clients is a key element of health care practice, involving the gathering of information and the establishment of a relationship between the participants. Without effective interviewing, it is difficult to see how interventions can be successful, since both accurate information and mutual trust between professional and patient are required. This book takes students and trained nurses through a course of interviews with a variety of clients in different settings. It is highly focused, concentrating on the kinds of skills nurses will need to acquire and develop in interviewing, clients to ensure the highest quality care is offered. Drawing on a range of research studies from the fields of nursing, psychology, medicine and sociology, Newell seeks to show how a structured approach, drawing on behavioural and cognitive traditions, can lead to skilled, sensitive interviewing which also emphasizes the individuality and humanity of the patient. The author takes the reader through interviews at each stage of the nursing process, thereby constructing an "interviewing process".

Product Description: Written by an all-nurse author team, "Health and Physical Assessment" presents a comprehensive approach to health assessment in which client health, rather than a diagnosis, is the focus. In this book, the client is perceived as a total entity, rather than as an individual with a specific problem that the practitioner must diagnose...read more

Product Description: NURSING DIAGNOSIS encourages readers to develop critical thinking skills applicable to diagnostic reasoning and judgment in clinical practice. This valuable reference helps the reader understand nursing diagnoses and their development and use in care delivery...read more

Product Description: An exploration of the thinking processes that lead to a nursing diagnosis. Numerous examples from all clinical fields, levels of care, care settings and patient types illustrate the cognitive process and assist with decision making for diagnosis and treatment...read more

Product Description: A report of the Ninth NANDA Conference, which focused on diagnosis and taxonomy issues. It includes relevant, clinically useful information covering all papers and presentations as well as accounts of the NANDA business meeting, committee reports and regional and special interest group meetings...read more

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