Can I read Psychosocial Nursing: Care of the Physically Ill Patients and Their Families on EtoBox?

Psychosocial Nursing: Care of the Physically Ill Patients and Their Families by [edited by] Patricia D. Barry is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Psychosocial Nursing: Care of the Physically Ill Patients and Their Families about?

<p>This book addresses the nursing management of a patient's psychosocial response to both chronic and acute physical illness, traumatic injury, loss, and grief. Care of the patient's family receives compassionate focus as well. Powerful coverage of varied areas of care provide not only the latest developments in traditional approaches, but also the most current alternative approaches deemed effective in meeting the emotional, spiritual, and physical care of an individual patient. New chapters in this edition address: stress and its effects on the body; the two most common outcomes of ineffective coping: anxiety and depression; clinical specialties, including oncology and hospice, pain management, home care, emergency room, maternal-child, pediatric/adolescent, general medical-surgical, and older adult; the challenges of multicultural nursing; therapeutic touch (TT); holism and its interactive effects on health and illness, including "complementary" therapeutic options.</p> <p>The book contains black-and-white illustrations. </p>

Author

[edited by] Patricia D. Barry

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Lippincott

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780397551460

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Nursing