Mental Health Nursing at a Glance
At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare) Series

The market-leading at a Glance series is used world-wide by students and health professionals for its concise and clear approach and superb illustrations.

Each topic is presented in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.

Covering the whole curriculum, these introductory texts are ideal for teaching, learning and exam preparation, and are useful throughout nursing school and beyond.

Everything you need to know about Mental Health Nursing...at a Glance!

Mental Health Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for pre-registration mental health nursing students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series.

Divided into three sections, the first looks at essential skills, the second explores a range of specific mental health needs and disorders, and the third covers key leadership skills. This comprehensive book is a dynamic and thorough resource for pre-registration nursing students as well as newly qualified nurses wanting to consolidate and expand their knowledge of mental health nursing.

• Breaks down complex aspects of mental health care in an accessible way
• The perfect revision and consolidation textbook
• Linked closely with the NMC standards for pre-registration nursing education, and the essential skills clusters framework
• Highly visual colour presentation, with full colour illustrations throughout
• Includes boxes, summary boxes, key points and recommendations for practice to improve the learning experience
• Available in a range of digital formats - perfect for ?on the go? study and revision

How to use your revision guide vii

About the companion website x

Introduction xii

Practice tree example xiv

Part 1 Essential skills 1

1 Care, compassion and communication 2

2 Building therapeutic relationships 4

3 Values-based practice 6

4 Managing clinical risk 8

5 Infection prevention and control 10

6 Nutrition and fluid management 12

7 Elimination 14

8 Clinical observations 16

9 Documentation 18

10 Medicines management 20

Part 2 Nursing individuals with mental health needs 23

11 Assessment 24

12 Risk 26

13 Classification 28

14 Psychological interventions 31

15 Schizophrenia 34

16 Depression 36

17 Bipolar affective disorder 38

18 Anxiety 40

19 Eating disorders 42

20 Personality disorders 44

21 Learning disabilities and mental health 46

22 Functional disorders in older adults 48

23 Dementia 50

24 Acute confusional states 52

25 Drug and alcohol misuse 54

26 Children and adolescent mental health 56

27 Recovery 58

28 Physical wellbeing 60

29 Mental health law 62

30 Medication and ECT 66

Part 3 Leadership skills 71

31 Organising care 72

32 Leadership 74

33 Managing people 76

34 Time management 78

35 Decision-making 80

36 Utilising research 82

37 Reflection 84

38 Lifelong learning 86

Appendix: Clinical procedures 88

References and bibliography 92

Glossary 93

Index 95

Grahame Smith is Principal Lecturer and Head of Social Work, Mental Health and Counselling at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is an experienced mental health nurse who has worked in a variety of?mental health service settings. He has a proven career record within the area of health care research and development both as a field-worker and as a project manager.
His current role in the higher education sector ensures that he is involved directly in the process of delivering both pre and post registration nurse education courses. He is also a team member of a practice development team within an in-patient mental health setting.