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Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing
Phil Woods (Edited by), P Woods (Author), Alyson M. Kettles (Edited by)
9781405152860, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2009
266 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.472 kg
"It provides an excellent overview of risk theory, and technical approaches to risk assessment in a manner that may be easily understood by health care professionals." (Journal Health Risk & Society, 22 September 2011)
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. 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 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, risk to others and risk to self. Special Features:
Foreword v 1 Introduction 1 2 Risk Assessment and Management 9 3 The Theory of Risk 49 4 Instrumentation 77 5 Risk to Others 109 6 Risk to Self 143 7 Risk of Substance Misuse 199 8 Conclusions 243 Index 253
Contributors vii
Phil Woods and Alyson M. Kettles
John Cordall
Alyson M. Kettles and Phil Woods
Phil Woods and Alyson M. Kettles
Phil Woods
B. Lee Murray and Eve Upshall
Lois Dugmore
Alyson M. Kettles and Phil Woods
Subject Areas: Nursing & ancillary services [MQ]
