Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans

This text presents consistent, comprehensive care plans to assist students and practitioners in providing effective psychiatric nursing care. Its combination of theoretical and practical aspects guides readers in applying their knowledge to clinical experiences. It features information about disorders, such as aetiology, epidemiology, defining features, risk factors and outcome criteria, to provide users with a fundamental knowledge base to understand the implementation of the interventions. The work also discusses both nursing and medical diagnoses as frameworks for care to emphasize the necessary collaboration of both fields in effective patient care. This edition contains chapters on adjustment disorders and eating disorders and incorporates new content on dual diagnosis in a chapter on chemical dependence.

ISBN 0815133391   Pages 340 ISBN13 9780815133391 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Weight (grammes) 774 Imprint Mosby   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 286 Publication date 01 Jun 1995   Width (mm) 221 Library of Congress RC440.F57   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 610.7368   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC20   Interest age 18

1		The Nursing Process		1
2		Anxiety and Related Disorders		19
3		Mood Disorders		48
4		Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders		74
5		Adjustment Disorders		96
6		Personality Disorders		106
7		Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence		146
8		Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders		167
9		Substance-Related Disorders		182
10		Eating Disorders		212
11		Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders		227
		App. A ANA Standards of Psychiatric - Mental Health Clinical Nursing Practice		235
		App. B Patients' Rights		238
		App. C DSM-IV Classification		239
		App. D Comparison of Developmental Theories		249
		App. E Stages of Grieving		253
		App. F Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship		255
		App. G Interpersonal Techniques		258
		App. H Defense Mechanisms		260
		App. I Suicide Assessment and Intervention Guidelines		264
		App. J Psychiatric/Psychosocial Therapies		266
		App. K Guidelines for Seclusion and Restraint		271
		App. L Drugs to Treat Mental and Emotional Disorders		274
		App. M Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous		306
		Glossary		307
		Bibliography		325
		Index		333

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