Contact F.A. Davis Customer Service for information about Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 5th Edition or for information about the new 6th Edition of this title at 800-323-3555. Whether it’s an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that’s concise, engaging, and informative. It offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing—in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. It’s the psychiatric nursing text that students actually read, understand, and use. Completely revised and updated throughout, the 5th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge in the field and the practice of mental health nursing today, including the new, core competences outlined in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.
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Emphasizing therapeutic communication techniques, this fifth edition of a text/CD-ROM package for students in two- and four-year programs now contains separate chapters on depression and bipolar disorder, and integrates core competencies outlined in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative. The text contains sections on care of clients with specific psychiatric disorders, along with material on special populations such as victims of abuse or neglect and bereaved clients. Appendices offer references on diagnostic classifications. The book's layout features color anatomical illustrations explaining the neurobiology of disorders and treatments, plus color-coded headings and subheadings for easy readability, and numerous color tables. In addition to typical learning features such as review questions and critical thinking cases, the text includes citations to journal articles and descriptions of these studies' results and implications for nursing practice. Each chapter also includes a list of contemporary and classical references. New learning features for this edition include text-based assignments due before class lectures. The CD-ROM contains NCLEX-style questions and an electronic workbook which contains printable drug monographs, client education guides, patient assessment tools, and a glossary. The website offers more drug monographs and neurobiological illustrations, a concept map generator, and interactive exercises and animations. Townsend formerly taught nursing at Oklahoma City University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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