Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive textbook that offers a sound and forward-looking introduction to psychiatric nursing. This is a multi-contributor work that covers all the information underpinning good psychiatric nursing. Reflecting current nursing (and psychiatric nursing) practice, it treats psychiatric nursing as a distinctive specialty. All the contributors have specialist expertise in the topics about which they have written. Each chapter provides a thorough overview and demonstrates a critical and research-basedexamination of its subject matter.
