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Elsevier Health Sciences The Philosophy and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing: Selected Writings 1e by Phil Barker
This book brings together a collection of the authors papers which when taken as a whole address many of the mostpressing issues in psychiatric nursing today. The papers are linked and present the backbone of the authors philosophy of nursing. Each of the chapters deals either with the search to define the theoretical and practical basis of psychiatric nursing or addresses more general issues in nursing which have some specific bearing on the practice of psychiatric nursing. Each chapter is followed by an invited commentary from respected psychiatric nurses who were given the brief to draw out some of the main points of the chapter and put them in focus for todays nurses.Dynamic charismatic authorThis book brings together the authors major works for the first timeshow more