Grahame Smith 
Mental Health Nursing at a Glance [PDF ebook] 

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.