Nurses have a lot of responsibility, including the assessment and care of patients. There are times when decisions are made without a doctor's supervision. Because people's lives are on the line, it ...

Older people often have multiple and complex care needs, so assessing them is a highly skilled activity. Their health issues and care needs are sometimes summed up in ‘catchy’ phrases, but it is ...

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on how psychiatric nurses assess risk. It examines the different risk-management strategies used, discusses the rationale behind them and ...