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Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

A Clinical Approach

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Psychiatric**Prepare for psychiatric nursing care with this comprehensive, evidence-based… Leer más

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Psychiatric**

Prepare for psychiatric nursing care with this comprehensive, evidence-based text! Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 9th Edition makes it easy to understand the complexities of psychiatric disorders and how to provide quality mental and behavioral health care. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application, preparing you for practice with real-world examples. Other notable features include illustrated explanations of the neurobiology of disorders, DSM-5 criteria for major disorders, and nursing care plans. From clinical nurse specialist and lead author Dr. Margaret Jordan Halter, this bestselling text includes new Next Generation NCLEX® content to prepare you for success on your PMHN certification exam.

Puntos claves

  • Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice
  • Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention
  • Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews
  • Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting
  • Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills
  • Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders
  • Considering Culture boxes discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations
  • Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse’s role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects

De interès para

Undergraduate nursing students

Índice

UNIT I: Foundations in Theory

1. Mental Health and Mental Illness

2. Theories and Therapies

3. Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology

UNIT II: Foundations for Practice

4. Treatment Settings

5. Cultural Implications

6. Legal and Ethical Considerations

UNIT III: Psychosocial Nursing Tools

7. The Nursing Process and Standards of Care

8. Therapeutic Relationships

9. Therapeutic Communication

10. Stress Responses and Stress Management

UNIT IV: Psychobiological Disorders

11. Childhood and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

12. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

13. Bipolar and Related Disorders

14. Depressive Disorders

15. Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

16. Trauma, Stressor-Related, and Dissociative Disorders

17. Somatic Symptom Disorders

18. Eating and Feeding Disorders

19. Sleep-Wake Disorders

20. Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders

21. Impulse Control Disorders

22. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

23. Neurocognitive Disorders

24. Personality Disorders

UNIT V: Trauma Interventions

25. Suicide and Non-suicidal Self-Injury

26. Crisis and Disaster

27. Anger, Aggression, and Violence

28. Child, Older Adult, and Intimate Partner Violence

29. Sexual Assault

UNIT VI: Interventions for Special Populations

30. Dying, Death, and Grieving

31. Older Adults

32. Serious Mental Illness

33. Forensic Nursing

UNIT VII: Other Intervention Modalities

34. Therapeutic Groups

35. Family Interventions

36. Integrative Care

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Sobre el autor

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Margaret Jordan Halter

Margaret Jordan Halter is the Editor of Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care, Former Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, Ohio, Former Faculty, Malone College, Canton, Ohio; University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Former Associate Dean, Ashland University, Mansfield, Ohio, USA
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Editor, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care, Former Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, Ohio, Former Faculty, Malone College, Canton, Ohio; University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Former Associate Dean, Ashland University, Mansfield, Ohio, USA