Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing

This text covers predisposing factors, symptomatology, possible nursing aetiologies, defining characteristics, goals, interventions, and discharge criteria for the more common diagnoses within the framework of the most common psychiatric disorders.

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This book covers predisposing factors, symptomatology, possible nursing aetiologies, defining characteristics, goals, interventions, and discharge criteria for the more common diagnoses within the framework of the most common psychiatric disorders. The book focuses on the care of the patient in the acute care setting, with suggestions for application within the outpatient and community settings. There are chapters on the psychiatric diagnoses of impulse control disorders and sexual disorders. Care plans for selected topics are included as well as care plans for the new nursing diagnoses that have applications for psychiatry, caregiver role strain, high risk for self-mutilation and relocation stress syndrome.