title: Patient self-mutilation: when nursing becomes a nightmare.
abstract: 1. Patients who demonstrate self-wounding behaviour require behavioral, pharmacological, and psychotherapeutic interventions to meet their highly complex needs. 2. Nurses caring for patients who wound themselves will experience frustration related to the safety needs of the patients and guilt whenever an injury occurs. 3. Staff members managing the patient who wounds himself or herself need administrative support, education, and counseling to relieve guilt, personal and professional conflict, and stress.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Unit, Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, Perry Point, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Loughrey
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Molla
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wobbleton
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology