Full Description
This revised reprint has been updated to better equip yourself for today's psychiatric nursing practice with all of the essential nursing interventions and clinical content combined with current research and evidence-based practice. From the author of the bestselling Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, this text was specifically developed to effectively prepare students in today's shorter courses. The new edition features updated content along with new opening unit pages with vignettes, Selected Concept boxes and a new chapter on stress and stress-related disorders.
Contents
UNIT IScience and the Art of Psychiatric Nursing 2. Mental Health and Mental Illness 3. Theories and Therapies 4. Biological Basis for Understanding Psychopharmacology 5. Settings for Psychiatric Care 6. Legal and Ethical and QSEN: The Foundation for Safe and Effective Care UPDATED! 8. Communication Skills: Medium for All Nursing Practice 9. Therapeutic Relationships and the Clinical Interview UNIT III: CARING FOR PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DISORDERS 10. Stress and Stress-Related Disorders NEW! 11. Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders UPDATED! 12. Somatic and Dissociative Disorders UPDATED! 13. Personality Disorders 14. Eating Disorders 15. Mood Disorders: Depression UPDATED! 16. Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorders UPDATED! 17. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders 18. Neurocognitive Disorders 19. Substance Use and Addictive Disorders UPDATED! UNIT IV: COMMUNICATING WITH AND PLANNING CARE FOR PATIENTS EXPERIENCING PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES 20. Crisis and Mass Disaster 21. Child, Partner, and Elder Violence 22. Sexual Violence 23. Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors 24. Anger, Aggression, and Violence 25. Care for the Dying and Those who Grieve UNIT V: COMMUNICATING WITH AND PLANNING CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH DESCRETE NEEDS 26. Children and Adolescents 27. Adults 28. Older Adults Appendixes A DSM-5 Classification B NANDA-International Approved Nursing Diagnoses C DSM-5 Criteria Boxes
