Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
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TL;DR
This text presents the most comprehensive nursing diagnoses and care plans and features rationales for all nursing interventions to reflect the most recent updates in the field.
Abstract
From a historical perspective, psychiatric/mental health nursing as a specialized area of practice is in its early developmental stages. Within the discipline of nursing and on the interdisciplinary scene, the range and scope of actions of the psychiatric/mental health specialists is still being debated. Professional roles and responsibilities are somewhat blurred. But the role is expanding. Contemporary psychiatric nursing practice has moved to a position of collegial support among the disciplines with shared responsibility. The attitudes of society, of the nursing profession, and of the health care providers will continue to influence the maturation process of the psychiatric/mental health nursing specialty.