The market leader among RN psychiatric nursing texts, "Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing" offers students a clear, straightforward way to understand the often intimidating subject of psychiatric nursing from a practical clinical perspective. A user-friendly writing style engages the reader in a learning process that both informs and ...
his exceptional text brings psychiatric nursing theory to life with foundational theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical application for all the major DSM-IV disorders across the treatment continuum. Short, incisive chapters use a nursing process framework and emphasize assessment, therapeutic communication, neurobiology, and ...
Here's the 7th Edition of the most complete, easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individual care plans! It's really 2 books in 1. The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be ...
This text serves as a mid-level chronological introduction to developmental psychology covering prenatal development through to death. The book features a broad coverage of issues and a current and diverse research base. There is an emphasis on cultural and gender issues that introduce the student to the diversity of human behaviour across the ...
A comprehensive, introductory textbook, Fundamentals of Nursing presents basic professional concepts, clinical concepts, and clinical skills with step-by-step illustrated procedures. The text's striking, full-color visual material holds students' interest, and the clear, readable writing style enhances understanding. Throughout, it takes a ...
This text is designed to meet the needs of contemporary nursing by translating biopsychosocial theory into clinical practice. The predominant underlying concept is the interrelatedness of biological, psychological and sociocultural etiologies with interventions and desired patient outcomes. The focus of the text is the professional roles and ...
This text presents consistent, comprehensive care plans to assist students and practitioners in providing effective psychiatric nursing care. Its combination of theoretical and practical aspects guides readers in applying their knowledge to clinical experiences. It features information about disorders, such as aetiology, epidemiology, defining ...
"Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing, 8th Edition" provides comprehensive coverage of psychiatric nursing. Beginning with fundamental coverage of all key psychiatric nursing principles, it goes on to address the complete continuum of care, including mental health promotion and illness prevention, crisis intervention, and psychiatric ...
For courses in Mental Health Nursing.Formerly titled Essentials of Mental Health Nursing, this leading text offers in-depth information in a manageable length as it presents concrete methods to help students develop effective communication, assessment, and intervention techniques. Using the nursing process as the organizational framework--along ...
This supplemental text/reference presents 53 nursing care plans that address the most commonly-encountered behaviours and behaviour complexes among adult and adolescent clients in psychiatric mental health nursing. Readers should be able to identify a client's problem easily by locating either the nursing diagnosis or the client's symptom. ...
This textbook covers all the major areas of psychiatric nursing. Each chapter covering content of the major psychiatric conditions includes a presentation of the experiences of a client suffering from the psychiatric condition, excerpted from literature. The aim of the text is that students can use the material to better understand their client's ...
This book has been developed focusing on two central themes--1) evidence-based nursing practice and 2) global mental health. It provides readers with the most current, culturally competent, authoritative, and comprehensive resource available. Supporting and interactive material can be found on the companion website and CD-ROM.
The fourth edition of this text continues to offer coverage of the major concepts in psychiatric-mental health nursing. It addresses topics such as community mental health, eating disorders, child abuse and neglect, the abused adult in the family unit, rape and sexual assault, psychosocial aspects of aging, and coping with AIDS. The work is ...
Covering the area of psychiatric nursing, this text incorporates details of psychobiology and psychopharmacology to emphasize the importance of biological factors in diagnosis and treatment. The work introduces clinical pathways conceptually in the nursing process chapter and further illustrates them in a separate appendix to familiarize the ...
Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of mental-health nursing. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering therapeutic communication, developmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, ...
In this updated edition, Kathryn Neeb continues to squarely address mental health within the scope of practical/vocational nursing, emphasizing that LPN/LVNs most commonly care for patients with psychiatric problems in general patient care settings rather than in specialized psychiatric facilities. This targeted approach, along with her accessible ...
Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, the updated 3rd edition of this textbook describes the essentials of mental health care spanning a wide variety of clinical settings. This book is known for its solid coverage of the foundations of mental health care, its emphasis on therapeutic care, and its chapter-by-chapter coverage of specific ...
"Psychiatric Nursing" familiarizes the user with the basis of adaptation and human responses across the lifespan. It integrates neurobiological, psychosocial, life span, cultural, and spiritual principles of complex processes that give rise to various psychiatric disorders. The text offers thorough, informative, and germain content to holistically ...
Completely updated in a new 2nd edition, this book remains a practical guide to applying the nursing process to the care of clients with psychiatric disorders and general clients with psychosocial issues teaches psychiatric-mental health nursing as it is really practiced. Nursing Care is presented in the five-step nursing process format and ...
PSYCHIATRIC NURSING has consistently been one of the most thorough texts for the ADN/BSN market, focusing on the therapeutic skills expected of the psychiatric nurse. In order to give the student a better understanding of psychopathologic processes, the book uses the simple and unique model of psychotherapeutic management, which is comprised of ...
This second edition of the guide for mental health nurses includes two new chapters, on complementary therapies and the ageing individual, internet references for each DSM-IV-TR diagnosis, patient teaching tables and up-to-date NANDA terminology incorporated into all care plans.
This concise, quick-reference handbook addresses common psychosocial and psychiatric problems as they are most commonly encountered - in conjunction with a patient's medical problems. It's the resource your students can turn to identify symptoms of mental health disorders and know how to intervene quickly and effectively to keep patients safe.This ...
Introduces the fundamental theories, concepts, issues and approaches needed to understand group dynamics. The text also develops the skills that are needed for effective intervention in a group's ongoing process. This book should be of interest to health professionals.
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