title: Post-traumatic stress disorder: recognition and management.
abstract: Nurses may encounter patients with post-traumatic stress disorder at any time in their work. Knowledge of the disorder will assist nurses to care more fully for these patients. It may be argued that PTSD is on the increase in society.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bassett
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*