title: Nursing management of self-mutilation.
abstract: This article attempts to define and describe self-mutilation and offers an introductory view of its nursing management. Most importantly it enjoins nurses to self-consciously appraise their practice in this area and develop an unconditional acceptance of the validity of such unconventional behaviour.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burrow
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology; D010358:Patient Participation; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology