Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

Focusing on what psychiatric nurses actually do in everyday practice, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 5th Edition, uses a balanced nursing-medical approach to cover all of the most common disorders and treatments. The text's full-color illustrations and straightforward style help you make sense of challenging material. And its strong emphasis on the nursing process, updated DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, interdisciplinary interventions, and the latest mental health practices boost your confidence in managing clients and prepare you for success on the NCLEX^¨ examination.

• UNIQUE! Balanced nursing-medical approach offers strong baseline coverage of the nursing process and interdisciplinary interventions and focuses on what psychiatric nurses actually do.
• Complete coverage of the nursing process features the six-step problem-solving method and how to put it into practice.
• DSM-IV-TR Criteria boxes list categories of mental disorders and the criteria for diagnosing them.
• Nursing care plans provide care guidelines for each plan and include a brief case study, followed by assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, interventions with rationales, and evaluation.
• UNIQUE! Clinical Alert boxes address issues critical to the safety or well-being of the client.
• Case studies depict effective nursing care strategies and promote critical thinking.
• Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes discuss the implications of current research studies.
• Client and Family Teaching Guidelines boxes focus on the issues confronting families when a member suffers from mental illness.
• UNIQUE! Medication Key Facts boxes highlight the most common psychopharmacologic interventions along with safe and effective use.
• Nursing Assessment Questions boxes include questions that should be asked in the assessment of a particular disorder.
• Clinical Symptoms boxes help you apply content to the real world.
• Additional Treatment Modalities boxes summarize other modalities and interventions used in conjunction with nursing interventions in the treatment of a particular disorder.
• Chapter summaries conclude each chapter with the most significant ideas to remember.
• Review questions with answers in the appendix offer immediate reinforcement of chapter content and help you prepare for the NCLEX Examination.
• Glossary provides concise definitions of key terms.
• Objectives and key terms emphasize the most important concepts from each chapter.