Interpersonal nursing for mental health

By Cindy Stuhlmiller, Simon Champ, Jan Horsfall

Subjects: Psychiatric nursing, Nursing, Nurse and patient, Psychiatric Nursing, Mental Disorders, Nurse-Patient Relations

Description: Focuses on interpersonal interactions between nurses and consumers. The text elaborates the position that interpersonal relationships are the foundations of nursing practice in that they facilitate or hinder holistic nursing assessment and are the medium within which changes in consumer emotions, behaviour and cognition arise.