ASSESSING AND INTERVENING WITH ANGER DISORDERS

Nurses often find angry patients threatening. In this article, current research will be synthesized to provide guidance to nurses whose spec ialty area may not be psychiatric nursing. Guidelines for assessing an d intervening with angry clients will be provided. Such guidelines are likely to be useful to nurses in every clinical setting, from the eme rgency room to the rural clinic to the high-tech hospital unit. Nurses will also learn some techniques for managing their own anger at uncoo perative or hostile clients.