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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring

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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring - Barker, Phil, RN
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Psychiatric and mental health nursing tends to be divided into two camps - that of the medical model and that of the humanist model. A central feature this book is its emphasis on a new concept of nursing practice called the craft of nursing. The idea of 'crafting' is that treatment of mental health and psychiatric patients is neither a science or an art but a combination of both. It trains the nurse to look not only for the medical diagnosis but emphasises the need for nurses to complement treatment with other disciplines ...

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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring 2009, Hodder Education Publishers, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780340947630

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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring 2003, Hodder Education Publishers, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780340810262

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