Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Presenting the fundamentals of psychiatric nursing, this guide includes content on the bereaved individual, dementia, disaster nursing, and suicide, as well as psychosocial therapies. It provides information on psychotropic medications. It also incudes appendices with DSM-IV-TR classifications, NANDA diagnoses and behaviors, and critical pathways.

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The 4th Edition of this popular text clearly and concisely presents the fundamentals of psychiatric nursing in a user friendly design and reader-friendly writing style that reflects the voice of a single author.Continued emphasis on holistic nursing and mind/body connection includes both physical and psychosocial nursing diagnoses for physiological disorders (e.g., asthma, migraine headache, hypertension) and for psychological disorders (such as somatoform and eating disorders).It includes a brand-new chapter - Cultural and Spiritual Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. It provides discussions of concept mapping and concept map care plans for all major psychiatric disorders. It provides up-to-date coverage of the latest psychotropic drugs. It features "Core Concept" boxes in all chapters.It provides updated NANDA terminology. It includes in-depth content on the bereaved individual, dementia, disaster nursing, and suicide, as well as psychosocial therapies. It provides comprehensive, information on psychotropic medications.
It provides twenty-one sample "Client Teaching Guides" for psychotropic medications and psychiatric illnesses which then can be reproduced for use in patient education. It provides "Implications of Research for Evidence-Based Practice" for specific nursing interventions. It includes "Test Your Critical Thinking Skills" boxes with case studies and exercises. It includes appendices with DSM-IV-TR classifications, NANDA diagnoses and behaviors, critical pathways, and guidelines for mental health assessment, as well as a complete glossary.