Author : Lazette Nowicki
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780781734301
This excellent study guide helps LPN/LVN students get the most out of the Textbook of Basic Nursing, Eighth Edition. This concise learning tool allows students to review all the key material from the Eighth Edition and features a self-study CD-ROM they can use to help prepare for class or examinations.
Author : Mary Ann Boyd
Publisher : Lippincott Raven
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780781729901
This study guide offers dozens of self-study exercises, puzzles, and review questions.
Author : Mary Ann Boyd
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780781791694
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Fourth Edition. Based on the biopsychosocial model of psychiatric nursing, this text provides thorough coverage of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents, and older adults. Features include psychoeducation checklists, therapeutic dialogues, NCLEX® notes, vignettes of famous people with mental disorders, and illustrations showing the interrelationship of the biologic, psychologic, and social domains of mental health and illness. This edition reintroduces the important chapter on sleep disorders and includes a new chapter on forensic psychiatry. A bound-in CD-ROM and companion Website offer numerous student and instructor resources, including Clinical Simulations and questions about movies involving mental disorders.
Author : Lippincott
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Psychiatric nursing
ISBN : 9780397551798
Author : Noreen Cavan Frisch
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 1998-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780766810068
Author : Sudha Patel
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 144961356X
Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Skills guides nursing students and practicing nurses towards enhancing fundamental psychiatric nursing skills competency in specific assessment and interventions for the selected psychiatric disorders. A nursing skill book in a manual format, this text is handy at the clinical site and encourages readers to translate their theoretical knowledge and psychiatric nursing skills into clinical practice. Topics include therapeutic communication techniques, assessment and interventions for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and suicide attempts, and crisis management skills for psychiatric emergencies. Included in the appendices are essential insights into ego defense mechanisms, Erickson’s Psychosocial Developmental Stages, Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development, and Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development.
Author : Margaret Jordan Halter
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1455753580
Rev. ed. of: Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing / [edited by] Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, Margaret Jordan Halter. 6th ed. c2010.
Author : Ruth A. Griffin
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780766826915
This comprehensive text offers a unique perspective on the needs of clients with psychiatric disorders. Its innovative approach is designed to help practitioners understand their clients so they can provide humanistic health care and disease treatment. The text offers a framework to provide a high level of care and deal with current issues that affect the care of clients, such as health care reform, shorter inpatient stays, psychobiology, community care, and technology. The real-life experiences of clients with psychiatric disorders are presented through excerpts from literature, movie clips, and classic art.
Author : Donna M. Womble
Publisher : LWW
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : Psychiatric nursing
ISBN : 9781975103781
Introductory Mental Health Nursing, 4th Edition Donna Womble, MEd, BS, RN; and Cynthia A. Kincheloe, MSN, BSN, ADN, RN Confidently manage the mental health issues you'll encounter across a wide range of health care settings. Written specifically for LPN/LVN students, Introductory Mental Health Nursing, 4th Edition, equips you for the challenges of modern mental health nursing with clear, direct, clinically relevant information reflecting the most up-to-date perspectives in the field. This acclaimed text establishes essential groundwork then builds on fundamental concepts to instill a confident understanding of the delivery of mental health care, the nursing process and its relation to mental health, and the management of specific psychiatric disorders to prepare you for success from the classroom to your career. -Enhanced! Case applications guide you in applying the nursing process to resolve clinical problems. -Updated! Chapter-ending Student Worksheets reinforce key concepts through fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple-choice NCLEX�-style questions. -At a Glance sections highlight or summarize essential information for stronger recall and retention. -Just the Factsentries distill critical details for faster, more efficient review. -Mind Jogger critical thinking questions promote deeper understanding. -At-A-Glance Senior Focus helps you confidently prepare for the care of older adults or elderly clients. -Updated terminology helps you ensure the most effective clinical communication.
Author : Elizabeth M. Varcarolis
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1437717829
A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 4th Edition helps you assess psychiatric nursing clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, and design psychiatric nursing care plans. It offers quick and easy access to information on care in a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA, provides a clinically based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use. Current coverage includes the latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of patients with psychiatric disorders. Clinically based information helps you provide patient care in a range of environments including the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. Coverage of all major disorders includes those commonly encountered in a clinical setting. A consistent format for each care plan includes a nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales. Assessment tools such as tables, charts, and questionnaires are provided in an appendix for quick reference. A Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching chapter describes the uses and workings of psychotropic agents. The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy with diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. Current psychiatric nursing guidelines are based on ANA's 2007 Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Updated 2009-2011 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses assist with accurate diagnoses by including the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing. Updated drug information includes the latest on medications used with psychiatric patients, for optimal drug therapy.
