Ma Varcarolis RN

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Revised Reprint - E-Book (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The revised reprint includes all new DSM-5 updates, updated psychiatric nursing content, along with new opening unit pages with vignettes, Selected Concept boxes and a new chapter on stress and stress-related disorders. This updated version equips yourself for today's psychiatric nursing practice with all of the essential nursing interventions and clinical content combined with current research and evidence-based practice. From the author of the bestselling Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, this text was specifically developed to effectively prepare students in today's shorter courses.

• New DSM-5 criteria boxes in an appendix
• Updated Chapters include:
• Chapter 17: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder -new material on the Recovery Model adapted for schizophrenia, new Matrix 7 domains for Cognition affected by Schizophrenia, and an updated chapter drug table which now includes the latest drugs for schizophrenia
• Chapter 15: Mood Disorders: Depression - the chapter drug table has been updated with the latest drugs for depression
• Chapter 16: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders - the medication tables have been updated throughout
• Chapter 11: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders - this chapter has been updated with new content
• Chapter 12: Somatoform Disorders and Dissociative Disorders - the section on somatic symptom disorder has been thoroughly revised
• Chapter 19: Addiction and Compulsions - this chapter has been rewritten with additions of substances, medications and new tables
• UNIQUE! Examining the Evidence boxes explain the reasoning behind nursing interventions and how research affects everyday practice.
• UNIQUE! Applying the Art sections communication tables in the clinical chapters provide examples of therapeutic and nontherapeutic communication techniques as well as realistic nurse-patient interaction scenarios.
• Key concepts and terms clarify essential terminology.
• Potential Nursing Diagnosis tables give several possible nursing diagnoses for a particular disorder along with the associated signs and symptoms.
• Vignettes offer succinct, real-life glimpses into clinical practice by describing patients and their psychiatric disorders.
• Assessment Guidelines familiarize readers with methods of assessing patients.
• Critical thinking questions introduce clinical situations in psychiatric nursing.
• Key Points to Remember outline the main concepts of each chapter in an easy to comprehend and concise bulleted list.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier HealthScience EN
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780323294157
• Artikelnr.: 43875753