Nursing Care of Personality Disorders in the Medical Surgical Setting

This article presents an overview of personality disorders & identifies the types of disorders. The focus is on assessment of & intervention with the personality characteristics of borderline & antisocial personality disorders that create problems in the medical setting for both the patient & nurse. The case of a 23-year-old woman admitted to hospital for the third time in a year for a suicide attempt is used as one illustration. 24 refs.)