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 ...
In its full-colour, fifth edition, Mary Townsend's "Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice" is still the most clearly written text on the subject. The stress/adaptation model remains the conceptual framework for the delivery of nursing care, providing a foundation of psychiatric mental health nursing ...
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 ...
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 ...
This pocket-sized clinical companion is designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of psychiatric nursing care plans. It provides quick and easy access to the detailed and concrete information students need to know as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health ...
This exciting new resource contains selected care plans for pediatric, maternal, and psychiatric nursing in addition to medical-surgical nursing care plans 101 care plans in all. This allows students to use one book throughout the curriculum. Care plans are organized in four separate sections (medical-surgical, pediatric, maternal, and psychiatric ...
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 ...
This focused approach to psychiatric mental health provides you with an uncomplicated way to understand the often-intimidating subject of psychiatric nursing. Inside you'll find two themes of psychiatric mental health nursing: the 'How' of Communication and the 'Why' of Evidence. You will also find easy-to-understand explanations of the research ...
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 ...
This Seventh Edition has been reorganized and updated with contemporary curricula. Based on feedback from both students and instructors, the entire book has been thoroughly revised and updated, including six new chapters and a greater emphasis on evidence-based practice. More case-oriented content helps students better understand how to apply key ...
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 ...
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, "Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, Third Edition" has now been adapted to reflect current Canadian practice and to meet the needs of Canadian baccalaureate nursing students. Based on the biological-psychological-sociological aspects of mental illness, this text is ideal for nurses seeking ...
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