Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

5. Revised Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-323-07572-5
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1462 g

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.
- UNIQUE! Enhanced readability makes it easier for you to grasp difficult material.

- UNIQUE! Concept map highlights the nurse's role in psychiatric care.

- NEW! Adaption to Stress chapter covers basic neuroanatomy and the psychobiological aspects of psychiatric disorders, and shows you how to manage stress.
- NEW! Forensic Nursing in Clinical Practice chapter explains current therapies used in the treatment of physiological and psychological health problems and demonstrates the importance of the nurse's role in providing holistic nursing care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fortinash, Katherine M.

Holoday Worret, Patricia A.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Fachpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

1. Psychiatric Nursing: Theory, Principles, and Trends


2. Nursing Practice in the Clinical Setting


3. The Nursing Process and Standards of Care


4. Therapeutic Communication: Interviews and Interventions

PART II: BIOLOGIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL PRINCIPLES FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

5. Adaptation to Stress


6. Neurobiology in Mental Health and Mental Disorder


7. Human Development Across the Life Span


8. Culture, Ethnicity, and Spirituality: A Global Perspective


9. Legal and Ethical Aspects in Clinical Practice

PART III: PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

10. Anxiety and Related Disorders


11. Somatoform, Factitious, and Dissociative Disorders


12. Mood Disorders: Depression, Bipolar, and Adjustment Disorders


13. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders


14. Personality Disorders


15. Substance Related Disorders and Addictive Behaviors


16. Cognitive Disorders: Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorders


17. Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence


18. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa


19. Sleep Disorders: Dyssomnias and Parasomnias


20. Sexual Disorders: Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias

PART IV: CRISIS AND PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES

21. Crisis: Theory and Intervention


22. Suicide: Prevention and Intervention


23. Violence: Anger, Abuse, and Aggression


24. Forensic Nursing in Clinical Practice

PART V: THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS

25. Psychopharmacology


26. Therapies: Theory and Clinical Practice


27. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

PART VI: NURSING INTERVENTIONS WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS

28. Grief in Loss and Death


29. Emotional and Mental Responses to Medical Illness

PART VII: NURSING INTERVENTIONS IN THE HOME AND COMMUNITY

30. Community Mental Health Nursing for Patients with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness