@inbook{15840332935e41aaa0a6859a177187ea,
title = "Managing Anxiety",
abstract = "This chapter explores anxiety, providing a clinical description of its impact on patients with guidance for evidence-based assessment and management. Anxiety has a defined psychological mechanism and merits a planned management approach. Every nurse should possess the knowledge and skills to identify patients with and/or at risk of anxiety, to select and implement evidence-based strategies to manage anxiety, and to review the effectiveness of these to inform any necessary changes in care.",
keywords = "anxiety, agitation, nursing management, clinical assessment, evidence, clinical decisions, impact",
author = "Sarah Kendal and John Baker and Ian Bullock and Clark, {Jill Macleod} and Jo Rycroft-Malone",
note = "Reviews: {"}This book contains an excellent balance of empirical and statistical evidence, guidance for best practice and good common sense approaches.{"} - Dr Peter Carter, Royal College of Nursing, Chief Executive & General Secretary {"}This new book gives students the tools to make informed decisions about care and improve adult nursing practice on a day to day basis.{"} - Nicki Walsh, Lecturer, University of Nottingham, UK {"}The coverage is extremely relevant to the preparation of effective adult nurses and will be highly useful to readers.{"} - Dr Chris Bulman, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, UK {"}Written in a clear, understandable and reader-friendly way, this will be valuable for undergraduate students and registered practitioners.{"} - Paul Elliot, Senior Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK",
year = "2012",
month = may,
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-19-969741-0",
pages = "225--237",
booktitle = "Adult Nursing Practice",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}