Assessment and Decision Making in Mental Health Nursing
- Sandra Walker - Southampton University, UK
- Diane Carpenter
- Yvonne Middlewick
Key features:
- Assessment principles are applied across a variety of modern nursing settings that you may find yourself working in as a registered nurse
- Each chapter is linked to the relevant NMC standards and Essential Skills Clusters so you know you are meeting the professional requirements
- Activities throughout help you to think critically and develop essential graduate skills.
A useful resource, but one of a choice of books that the students have at present. I do mention this to students though as a prompt.
Easy to read and offers a basic overview of concepts surrounding Assessment & decision making. I would recommend this to students as a good starting point on the topic.
I found that this text book combined all the elements I needed for my students. The layout of the book was excellent
A very good, concise book with essential information on assessment. I will be recommending it to my undergraduate students
I have passed this book to several Mental Health Lecturer colleagues as some of the scenarios provide a great forum for discussion. The chapter on challenges to assessment got the students engaged in great debate where they shared some very interesting practice examples in order to relate theory to practice.
