Psychiatric Nursing 5.1.1

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Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications is a comprehensive resource focused on the development of personalized care plans for psychiatric and mental health patients. Divided into two main sections, it equips healthcare professionals with necessary diagnostic information and guidelines for safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. Its versatility extends to various healthcare environments, ranging from in-patient facilities to outpatient clinics, home health services, and private practices. This latest edition incorporates the most recent knowledge advancements and medications in the field, integrating updates such as the DSM-5 guidelines and contemporary psychotropic options.

• Key Features:

• Index of Client Behaviors with corresponding page numbers in the inside covers.
• Introduction of Concept Mapping and Concept Care Map Plans in Chapter 1.
• Structural organization based on DSM-5 classifications and diagnoses.
• Nursing diagnoses and interventions detailed with definitions, possible causes, observable characteristics, short- and long-term goals breakdown, rationale-backed interventions, and anticipated patient outcomes/discharge criteria.
• Comprehensive information on each psychiatric disorder, covering background data, predisposing factors, symptom profiles, frequently associated nursing diagnoses, and interventions.
• Detailed exploration of psychotropic drug categories such as anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and more including indications, routes, dosages for individual drugs and classifications.
• Offline access post initial download with efficient SmartSearch functionality for quick information retrieval including partial term searches.

New To This Edition:

• Thoroughly UPDATED & REVISED content aligns with contemporary nursing education and practice standards.
• Inclusion of the latest psychiatric disorder trends following DSM-5 guidelines.
• Enhanced coverage on psychotropic medications introduces recently available drugs while eliminating discontinued ones.
• Additional content on factitious disorders, Munchausen syndrome, interactions with military families.
• Expanded communication interventions within care plans emphasizing therapeutic dialogue.
• Addition of two new rating scales in the appendix: The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.

Awarded second place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing category

ISBN 10: 0803642377

ISBN 13: 978-0803642379

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Author(s): Mary C. Townsend

Publisher: F. A. Davis Company