Risk assessment and management is a core element of mental health
practice, and all nurses need to be aware of the risks surrounding
them and their patients in order to create a safe working
environment. This timely and accessible text explores how
nurses can enhance their skills, and improve their practice so that
risk is assessed and managed safely and effectively.
Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health Nursing
explores issues including context and definitions of risk, risk
assessment tools and techniques, strategies for preventing risk
situations, suicide, self-harm, neglect, forensic aspects of risk,
substance misuse, ethical considerations, , victimology, risk to
others and risk to self.
Special Features:
* Written in the context of latest policy developments such as
the National Service Frameworks
* Discusses the role of the mental health nurse in the
assessment and management of risk
* Explores an increasingly important and timely subject in
mental health practice
* Practical focus, with case studies throughout
* Written by experts in the field
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Risk Assessment and Management.
Chapter 3: The Theory of Risk.
Chapter 4: Instrumentation.
Chapter 5: Risk to Others.
Chapter 6: Risk to Self.
Chapter 7: Risk of Substance Misuse.
Chapter 8: Conculsions
About the author
Dr Phil Woods is Associate Professor at the College of
Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. He has an extensive personal
portfolio of forensic and mental health related research. He is a
well known author of mental health and forensic nursing articles
and books.
Dr Alyson M. Kettles is Research Officer (Mental Health)
for NHS Grampian in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is also Senior Lecturer
at the University of Aberdeen. She has published widely on forensic
mental health nursing and has an extensive portfolio of mental
health research.
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