Beschreibung:
A stay in hospital is a traumatic experience for most patients; however, some patients may be more difficult than others to care for, because of mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behavior, for example. "Difficult" patients place extra demands on nurses professionally and personally. Developing the skills required to deal with difficult patients is therefore vital to the smooth running of any hospital ward.
1. Mental Status Assessment 2. Substance Abuse 3. Delirium 4. Psychiatric Diagnoses 5. Setting Limits 6. The Nurse's Authority 7. Manipulation, Clinging, Sexual Provocation, Anger and Violence -The Feelings they Evoke and the Interventions they may Require 8. The Ethics of Limit Setting 9. Families 10. Communicating with Doctors - the Difficult and the Easy 11. The Nurse and the Dying Patient 12. Nurses and Stress 13. Getting Psychiatric Consultation