Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

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F.A. Davis, Aug 16, 2013 - Medical - 850 pages
New DSM-5 content! Whether it’s an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that’s concise, engaging, and informative. It offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing—in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. It’s the psychiatric nursing text that students actually read, understand, and use.
 

Contents

Unit 2 PsychiatricMental Health Nursing Interventions
107
Unit 3 Care of Clients With Psychiatric Disorders
243
Unit 4 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing of Special Populations
645
Taxonomy II
827
Appendix B Assigning Nursing Diagnoses to Client Behaviors
832
Appendix C Mental Status Assessment
834
Appendix D Glossary
838
Appendix E Answers to Review Questions
858
Appendix F Examples of Answers to Communication Exercises
860
Categories and Codes
862
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