Management of Violence and Aggression: A Manual for Nurses and Health Care Workers

by Tom Mason, Mark Chandley, Tom Mason

Nurses and others in the front-line(paramedics, ambulance staff, hospital and GP receptionists, social workers etc) are reporting an increasing incidence of violence and aggression from patients/clients. Some of these outbursts have resulted in permanent injury, even death, to the health care worker. The book is structured so that the notion of violence becomes more explicit with each succeeding chapter, until finally the violent outburst arrives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443059349
• ISBN13: 9780443059346
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"