Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mental status assessment -- Substance abuse -- Delirium -- Psychiatric diagnoses -- Setting limits -- The nurse's authority -- Manipulation, clinging, sexual provocation, anger and violence: the feelings they evoke and the interventions they may require -- The ethics of limit setting -- Families -- Communicating with doctors: the difficult and the easy -- The nurse and the dying patient -- Nurses and stress -- Getting psychiatric consultation.

All Ages.