The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client's experience of mental illness.
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.
Psychiatric-mental health nursing promotes mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of human responses to mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Over 900 questions that include individual rationales for the correct and incorrect answers and test-taking tips Two, 75-question comprehensive exams online at DavisPlus Introductory chapter that focuses on applying critical thinking to ...
Accompanying CD-ROM has review questions for the NCLEX examination, interactive exercises, animations, and an audio glossary.
This edition adds a full chapter on Recovery and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Strategies, and many new boxed features showing how psychiatric disorders are portrayed in the news and movies.