Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

This comprehensive text offers a unique perspective on the needs of clients with psychiatric disorders. Its innovative approach is designed to help practitioners understand their clients so they can provide humanistic health care and disease treatment. The text offers a framework to provide a high level of care and deal with current issues that affect the care of clients, such as health care reform, shorter inpatient stays, psychobiology, community care, and technology. The real-life experiences of clients with psychiatric disorders are presented through excerpts from literature, movie clips, and classic art.