Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Revised Reprint - E-Book

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Nursing, Psychiatric

• Author: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA
• ISBN: 9780323294157
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Publication: March 12, 2014
• Imprint: Saunders
• Language: English

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.