Psychiatric Nurses who hold a master's or doctoral degree are developing direct clinical practices. Such clinical work will be effective tive in preventing mental illness and inopromoting mental health in persons who are psychiatrically disturbed. Like the other three major professional disciplines in ...
In most countries, a psychiatric nurse will have to attain abachelor’s degreein nursing to become aRegistered Nurse (RN), and specialise in mental health. Degrees vary in different countries, and are governed by country-specific regulations. In the United States one can become a RN, and a ...
Managing nurses' work schedules in hospitals is challenging because employer needs, like shift changes at short notice and overtime, may conflict with nurses' desires for a predictable and stable schedule. Nurses should have a certain degree of control over their work schedules, and their supervisor...
The degree to which these themes have been addressed and specified in the literature varies substantially. They appear to be conceptually distinctive but also to some extent interrelated. The four guiding principles underlying concepts of institutionalization are: a) bricks and mortar of care ...
Finally, a key ingredient of good relational engagement was a notable degree of affective bonding and mutual acceptance with patients. Several patients described staff members as “friends,” perhaps the only friends some of them had, and certain staff were highly skilled at treading the line caref...
Disorders of the CNS are broadly categorized as either psychiatric or neurodegenerative with a major degree of overlap in symptoms. Thus neurodegenerative disorders also have a high incidence of psychiatric comorbities including anxiety and depression. Psychiatric disease includes a variety of disorders su...
Because my mother has already worked as a nurse, she knows better about injections and treatment and all that. She knows better about taking treatment, so it is better if she is the one who fills the PAD document” [ID 5, Female, Carer]. Six carers were uncomfortable with the idea of...
Two recent surveys permit a limited degree of comparison between the characteristics of the two national workforces and the present paper summarizes the comparison which can be made from the two different data sets, in terms of the numbers of staff and rates per head of population, number of ...
Caregiver burden (as measured by the ZBI) in our 'high' burden group was of a similar degree to that reported by caregivers of persons with PD with apathy and ICDs,20 as well as by caregivers of individuals with a Clinical Impression of Severity Index for PD score of 'severe'.3 This ...
Rates of psychiatric conditions common to end-stage cancer patients (delirium, depression, anxiety disorders) remain unchanged. However, patient numbers have increased as the population has aged; indeed, cancer is a chief cause of mortality and morbidity in older populations. Effectiveness of psychiatri...