"The 2nd edition of "Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing" continues to takes its popular holistic approach, helping students and beginning practitioners understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client's experience of mental illness. Written by an experienced team of contributors from Australia and New Zealand, the client and student centred approaches have been enhanced in this edition to focus even more closely on providing students with practical examples and guidance on helpful and transformative communication. New content has also been included on indigenous mental health, mental health education and health promotion."--Provided by publisher.
Gives readers a thorough grounding in the theory of mental health nursing. Case studies throughout the text allow readers to understand the application of theory in every day practice.
While this foundational volume is primarily for those directly involved with psychiatric-mental health nursing practice, education, and research, other nursing and allied healthcare providers, researchers, and scholars will find value in ...
Provides a balanced nursing and medical approach with strong coverage of DSM-IV and related treatments. Nursing process is treated as a separate section in relevant chapters. Nursing process sections include...
This affordably priced text additionally comes with supplementary materials for both teachers and students, including handy review guides, summaries, drug monographs, and hyperlinks to films and video illustrating content.
Rev. ed. of: Psychiatric-mental health nursing / by Elizabeth Arnold, Karan Kverno.
Key facts about geropsychiatric nurse Works as part of mental health care team Has firm background in behavioral and social sciences Possesses thorough knowledge of pathophysiology , psychopharmacology , and normal aging . process Must ...
Text Taxonomy and diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 with references for each DSM-5 diagnosis Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) activities with guidelines for attaining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to fulfill the ...
This new edition continues to retain the reader-friendly style, emphasis on therapeutic communication, and the nursing process organization that was successful in the previous edition.
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Accompanying CD-ROM has review questions for the NCLEX examination, interactive exercises, animations, and an audio glossary.