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Psychiatric Nursing Course Notes: Mental Health Concepts, Personality Theories, the Mental Health Act and Mental State Examination

A full psychiatric nursing course, from the concepts and principles of mental health and illness and the historical periods of the specialty to the theories of personality, Erikson's eight stages, the aetiological factors of mental illness and the ICD-10, DSM-IV and DSM-V classifications. It covers admission and discharge under the Kenyan Mental Health Act Cap 248, offences in psychiatry, history taking and the mental status examination across appearance, speech, judgement, consciousness, memory, perception, mood, motor behaviour and thought. The last sections take the therapeutic nurse-client relationship, the drug and physical treatments with the nurse's responsibility, electroconvulsive therapy and its nursing care, the psychotherapies, and the organic mental disorders from delirium and amnestic disorders to dementia.

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