Communication problems facing nursing staff during their interaction with hospitalized mentally ill patients.

Nursing Homes and the Mentally Ill Elderly

This is the twenty-eighth report in a monograph series authorized by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association to give wider dissemination to the findings of the Association's many commissions, committees, and task forces that are called upon from time to time to evaluate the state of the art in a problem area of current concern to the profession, to related disciplines, and...

Nursing home reform and the mentally ill.

assessing the nursing and midwifery students competencies in communication with patients with severe communication problems

conclusions nursing and midwifery students did not significantly differ in terms of communication with patients with severe communication problems. most of the students had low or very low knowledge and skills in communication with patients with hearing impairment. however, they had better skills in communication with patient with speech problem. special workshops or training programs are recom...

Experience of nursing staff facing the hospitalization of burned children.

OBJECTIVE To present the experiences of nursing staff working with hospitalized burned children. METHODOLOGY Qualitative study. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews applied to 16 people of the nursing team (12 professional technicians and 4) working at a burn treatment center. For the analysis, the Method information Interpretation of the Senses was used. The theoretical basis u...

Health Affairs Nursing home reform and the mentally ill