Full Description
750 questions with detailed rationales for correct and incorrect responses, as well as test-taking tips for each question.
100-question comprehensive exam at the end of the text. Introductory chapter that focuses on applying critical thinking to each question type.
All questions written at application and analysis levels, just like the NCLEX.
Questions numbered consecutively within each chapter, making it easy to find the answers.
Key questions on major drug classes, medication administration, delegation, and management content integrated within mental disorder questions.
Perfect to use as a stand-alone text or used in combination with any other psychiatric text
Contents
I. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking Related to Test Taking
Introduction
II. Basic Concepts in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
1. Mental Health/Mental Illness: Theoretical Concepts
2. Psychiatric Nursing
3. Communication
4. Legal and Ethical Considerations
III. Management of Care for Individuals With Psychiatric Disorders
5. Stress Adaptation, Trauma, and Related Disorders
6. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders, Issues Related to Sexuality
7. Depressive Disorders and the Suicidal Client
8. Bipolar and Related Disorders
9. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
10. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
11. Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders
12. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
13. Neurocognitive Disorders
14. Eating Disorders
15. Children and Adolescents
16. Comprehensive Final Examination
Glossary of English Words Commonly Encountered on Nursing Examinations
