Full Description
Q&A Course Review
NCLEX prep
Assure your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while honing your critical-thinking, clinical judgment, and test-taking skills.
750 multiple-choice, alternate-format, and clinical judgment questions, organized by specific disorders, make a difficult subject more manageable. Questions reflect the latest advances in psychiatric/mental health nursing, DSM-5, and the latest Next Gen NCLEX-RN® Test Plan. Rationales for both correct and incorrect responses as well as test-taking tips help you critically analyze the question types. Plus, Clinical Judgment Case Studies and a 100-question exam at the end of the text help you assess your overall comprehension.
See what students are saying about previous editions...
Increased my score significantly. "If you're in nursing school you know mental health has a lot of gray areas. It's not like pharm or Med surg where it's 'this is right, and this is wrong'. This book helped me significantly to understand WHY certain answers were correct/incorrect. It helped me to think critically a different way than I'm used to. I failed my first mental health test. The second & third test after that I got over 90%. I did all the questions in this book under the section we were learning; read through the notes once. And that's it. Definitely get this book if you're struggling in mental health or afraid of what's to come in mental health. Best decision I've made in nursing school so far."—Chelsey S. Online Reviewer
Five Stars. "Made an A this semester in my mental health rotation."—Alana G., Online Reviewer
The rationales are the reason I love the books in the Davis Success series."Very helpful. Med-Surg Success was really helpful to me, so I decided to buy the mental health version for my current semester, and I am not disappointed."—Lynn C., Online Reviewer
New & Updated! Content that encompasses the evolution of technology, current standards of evidence-based practice, current pharmacology, and the latest terminology to reflect the 2023 NCLEX-RN® Test Plan
New! Clinical Judgment case studies that test the six cognitive skills of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's Clinical Judgment Measurement Model
New! Medication questions
750 questions with detailed rationales for correct and incorrect responses, as well as test-taking tips for each question, including alternate-format, fill-in-the-blank, select-all-that-apply, ordered response, exhibit labeling, and graphic questions
100-question comprehensive exam at the end of the text with answers and rationales
Introductory chapter that focuses on applying critical thinking to each question type
Perfect to use as a stand-alone text or used in combination with any other psychiatric text
Contents
A. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking Related to Test Taking
1. Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment Related to Test Taking
B. Basic Concepts in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
2. Mental Health/Mental Illness: Theoretical Concepts
3. Psychiatric Nursing
4. Communication
5. Legal and Ethical Considerations
C. Management of Care for Individuals With Psychiatric Disorders
6. Stress Adaptation, Trauma, and Related Disorders
7. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders, Issues Related to Sexuality
8. Depressive Disorders and the Suicidal Client
9. Bipolar and Related Disorders
10. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
11. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
12. Personality Disorders
13. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
14. Neurocognitive Disorders
15. Eating Disorders
16. Children and Adolescents
17. Clinical Judgment Case Studies
18. Comprehensive Final Examination
Glossary of English Words Commonly Encountered on Nursing Examinations
