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This excerpt from a book, "Care of the Difficult Patient: A Nurse's Guide" provides information on how to deal with difficult patients in a hospital setting. Difficult patients can be a challenge for nurses, as they often place additional demands on their time and resources. However, with the right skills and training, nurses can manage these patients effectively.
A stay in hospital is a traumatic experience for most patients; however, some patients may be more difficult than others to care for, because of mental distress and ill health, historic substance abuse, demanding family members or abusive behavior, for example. "Difficult" patients place extra demands on nurses professionally and personally. Developing the skills required to deal with difficult patients is therefore vital to the smooth running of any hospital ward.
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