How do you comply with a patient's wishes when he can't express them? The protection of the rights of people in hospital who are inarticulate is in the hands of the nurses.
How do you comply with a patient's wishes when he can't express them? The protection of the rights of people in hospital who are inarticulate is in the hands of the nurses.
Pony riding can give a new dimension to the life of a handicapped child.
Psychiatric nurses have been 'put through the mill' of bad publicity in the last couple of years. Some guidelines for the profession are being worked out at the moment but how helpful can they be and in what spirit will they be received?
Critics within psychiatry suggest that too many people are being classified as 'ill' and in need of treatment. Are psychiatrists casting their nets too wide and is society too psychiatry conscious?