Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing
Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing maintains a strong student focus, presenting sound nursing theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical applications across the treatment continuum. The chapters are short and the writing style is direct in order to facilitate reading comprehension and student learning. This text uses the nursing process framework and emphasizes assessment, therapeutic communication, neuro-biologic theory, and pharmacology throughout. Interventions focus on all aspects of client care, including communication, client and family education, and community resources, as well as their practical application in various clinical settings.
Basic Concepts of Psychiatric–Mental
Health Nursing
As noted in the previous editions, understanding the neuropathology or pathophysiology of a psychiatric–mental health disorder presents a challenge to student nurses as they enter a new phase of nursing education. Clinical psychopharmacology, which includes a working knowledge of the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of psychoactive drugs and the potential for drug–drug interactions, is an integral part of psychiatric–mental health nursing care. The development of cultural competence in psychiatric–mental health nursing is another challenge.
KAPLAN & SADOCK’S POCKET HANDBOOK
OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry. Every section in this book has been updated and revised and all the diagnoses of mental disorder conform to the criteria listed in DSM-5. Each disorder is described using the specific parameters of diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, clinical signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, and treatment. This book serves as a ready reference to diagnose and treat the full
range of mental disorders in both adults and children. Over the years, psychiatrists and non-psychiatric physicians have found it to be a useful guide as have medical students, especially during their rotations through psychiatry. It is
also used by psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and many other mental health professionals.
KAPLAN & SADOCK’S COMPREHENSIVE
TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY
The Comprehensive Textbook is a “university without walls” whose aim is to educate all those who work with the mentally ill—psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric
nurses, and mental health professionals from all fields. Its goal remains unchanged: to foster professional competence and to ensure the highest quality of care. The textbook has earned the reputation of being a thoroughly up-to-date encyclopedic compendium of psychiatric knowledge.
As editors, we are extremely gratified by its wide acceptance and use both in this country and abroad. No other major textbook in psychiatry can lay claim to having such a long, consistent, and enriched publication history.
POCKET GUIDE TO Psychiatric
Nursing
This book is designed as a guide in the construction of care plans for various psychiatric clients. The concepts are presented in such a manner that they may be applied to various types of health-care settings: inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinic, home health, partial hospitalization, and private practice, to name a few. Major divisions in the book are identified by psychiatric diagnostic categories as they appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013).
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
This is the landmark 10th edition of this textbook. Such a unique milestone is important for a number of reasons. First, it attests to the quality and value of the text since it has stood the test of time. Second, it confirms the fact that each new edition has presented the most up-to date
information in a clear and compelling way, making it a
most effective teaching-learning tool. Third, it reflects upon
the growing importance of mental health and substance use
problems in our society over the past 4 decades.
PSYCHIATRIC and MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and to inform you about the changes we have made to the content and welcome Anthony O’Brien from the University of Auckland to the editorial team. Anthony has always been a contributing author, and now he is a worthy successor to
Ruth Elder who is enjoying her retirement after 35 years in the service of mental health nursing.
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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing maintains a strong student focus, presenting sound nursing theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical applications across the treatment continuum. The chapters are short and the writing style direct in order to facilitate reading comprehension and student learning. This text uses the nursing process framework and emphasizes assessment, therapeutic communication, neuro-biologic theory, and pharmacology throughout. Interventions focus on all aspects of client care, including communication, client and family education, and community resources, as well as their practical application in various clinical settings.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice
This sixth edition of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice strives to present a holistic approach to evidenced-based psychiatric nursing practice. Research in nursing has been alive for decades. But over the years there has always existed a significant gap between research and practice. Evidence-based nursing has become a common theme within the nursing community. It has been defined as a process by which nurses make clinical decisions using
the best available research evidence, their clinical
expertise, and client preferences.
Psychiatric Nursing Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications
This book has been designed as a guide in the construction of care plans for various psychiatric clients. The concepts are presented in such a manner that they may be applied to various types of health-care settings: inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinic, home health, partial hospitalization, and private practice, to name
a few. Major divisions in the book are identified by psychiatric diagnostic categories as they appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013).
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A Guide to MENTAL HEALTH
AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
The American Psychiatric Association (APA 1980) defines mental health as: “Simultaneous success at working, loving and creating with the capacity for mature and flexible resolution of conflicts between instincts, conscience, important other people and reality”. Thus mental health would include not only the absence of diagnostic labels such as schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder, but
also the ability to cope with the stressors of daily
living, freedom from anxieties and generally a positive outlook towards life’s vicissitudes and to cope with those.
VARCAROLIS’ FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING: A CLINICAL APPROACH
We are living in an age of fast-paced research in neurobiology, genetics, and psychopharmacology, as well as research to find the most effective evidence-based approaches for patients and their families. Legal issues and ethical dilemmas faced by the health care system are magnified accordingly. With contributions from several knowledgeable and experienced nurse educators,
our goal is to bring to you the most current and comprehensive trends and evidence-based practices in psychiatric mental health nursing.
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