Care of the difficult patient [electronic resource] : a nurse's guide / Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun.
Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Description: 152 p. : illISBN:- 9780203004364
- Also available in print edition.

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.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.