So You Want To Be A Mental Health Nurse

Are you already a nurse, and looking for a change of direction. Are you a student studying nursing or a graduate looking to specialize and thinking about a career in mental health? Are you a casual nurse and looking to do a few shifts on a mental health ward? Whatever the reason, this book will offer you a fair and honest opinion of what you would be expected of you. Mental health is not for everyone. It can be a rewarding profession, it can be mostly very challenging. This book will act as a guide to getting started in the field. The book is the start of a series, to act a the perfect companion to carry in your bag and make reference to when you need to. Mental health nurses need support sometimes. It's a long journey, and to be prepared to have ongoing development has to start somewhere, and you need a solid foundation to stand on. This could be exactly what you are looking for.

Are you wondering if a career in Mental Health Nursing is right for you? If you are considering studying Mental Health Nursing or have already begun your course this book is the perfect tool to see if you have what it takes to be a Mental Health Nurse. It will tell you what to expect in your studies and address the ups and the downs of becoming a Mental Health nurse. It contains personal anecdotes from students who have already completed their course and advice from Mental Health lecturers on how to get the most out of your studies. This book will guide you through your course from beginning to end and prepare you for your future career.

This seventh edition includes new chapters and maintains popular features from previous editions such as self awareness prompts while adding research boxes and student worksheets at the end of each chapter.

Over 900 questions that include individual rationales for the correct and incorrect answers and test-taking tips Two, 75-question comprehensive exams online at DavisPlus Introductory chapter that focuses on applying critical thinking to each question type All questions written at application and analysis levels, just like the NCLEX(R) Questions numbered consecutively within each chapter, making it easy to find the answers Key questions on major drug classes, medication administration, delegation, and management content integrated within mental disorder questions 100-question comprehensive exam at the end of the text Perfect to use as a stand-alone text or used in combination with any other psychiatric text

The essentials of mental health nursing are presented in this fourth edition of a landmark nursing textbook on psychiatric nursing in South African primary health care and community health care settings.

So You Want To Be A Nurse? is a book that will educate nurses and aspiring nurses alike on how to excel in the health care system. It reveals everything no one wants to tell you about the nursing profession. It tells how to save the reader the agony of on the job trial and error training and gives you a head start in using experienced strategies in order to succeed. Readers will learn how to find the best nursing position for their personality and ability and how to deal with administrators, physicians, colleagues, patients and their families. It also tells you how to survive in a hospital once you get a nursing position. There are The Ten Commandments of Nursing, such as, "Don't put your own beliefs ahead of the patient's," "Choose your work friends cautiously" and offers tips on fundamental issues nurses face today.

The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client’s experience of mental illness.

Here's the most up-to-date information on the intricate choices involved and skills needed to confidently make choices about a career in counseling. Real-world advice on the time, education, money and effort needed. Includes a chapter on Online Counseling, a newly emerging area of expertise -- from cover.