Peplau’s Contributions to Psychiatric and Nursing Knowledge

An Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing

It is always good to see new books dealing with psychiatric nursing, and this one is well-produced, attractive in appearance and price and of convenient size. It contains a great deal of information, so much that the overall effect is rather like that of a quart squeezed into a pint pot. There is an excellent section on the wards and departments of the psychiatric hospital and a good summary of...

Psychiatric Nursing

Caribbean contributions to contemporary psychiatric psychopathology.

The intellectual exploration of phenomenological and psychiatric discovery that has flowered in the Caribbean in the period of political independence from British colonization is a reflection of the scholarship that has emerged from the academic nurturance by The University of the West Indies. Burgeoning migration of Caribbean people to England in the twentieth century has resulted in high repo...

[Reflecting on nursing contributions to global health].

OBJECTIVES Discuss possibilities of nursing contribution for global health approaching knowledge bases and the potential for global health, reflecting upon nursing education and their skills and abilities to perform into global health. RESULTS Nurses contribute to global health in areas related to the health system policies, social determinants of health/disease, global issues related to cult...

[The knowledge produced in the graduate program in nursing: psychiatric nursing].

After almost 30 years since the creation of the Psychiatric Nursing Concentration Area in the Graduate Program of the University of São Paulo Nursing School, it is important to take a look at its scientific production in order to substantiate reflection about teaching. This is a descriptive-exploratory study. It used as sources the registers of the Graduate Service, abstracts from theses and di...