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Psychiatric •

Mental Health

PsychiatricNursing:ContemporaryPractice, FifthEdition,

EnhancedUpdate

MaryAnnBoyd, PhD,DNS, RN, PMHCNS-BC

978-0-06-000037-0 •November2014 •Hardbound •8.375” x10.875” •920pp.

PsychiatricNursing:ContemporaryPractice,FifthEdition,Enhanced

Update

provides thorough coverage of psychiatric mental health

nursing organized around the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. With an

emphasis on the recovery model, the book follows DSM-5 guidelines

andhas expanded content.

The FifthEdition, EnhancedUpdateaddresses the changes in theDSM-

5diagnosticcriteria ina responsetomarketneeds.ThisUpdate includes

coreDSM-5 changes, select referenceupdates, and integrationof icons

to highlight related “patient experience videos” that are available on

thePoint website. It also retains an emphasis on the recovery model,

which focuses on a patient’s potential for recovery, involving the

partnership between patient and health care provider as a journey of

transformation, rather thanas a setoutcome.

Features

NCLEX

®

Notes

help students focuson important application areas

toprepare for theNCLEX

®

.

EmergencyCareAlerts

highlight important situations in

psychiatric nursing care that thenurse should recognize as

emergencies.

NursingManagementofSelectedDisorders

sections provide an

in-depth studyof themore commonlyoccurringmajor psychiatric

disorders.

NursingCarePlans

, basedon case scenarios, present clinical

examplesof patientswith aparticular diagnosis anddemonstrate

plansof care that followpatients throughvariousdiagnostic stages

and caredelivery settings.

InterdisciplinaryTreatment andRecoveryPlans (ITPs)

are linked

with their respectivenursing careplans in several chapters. ITPs are

used extensively inpractice.

Research forBestPractice

boxes highlight today’s focuson

evidence-basedpractice for best practice, presentingfindings and

implicationsof studies that are applicable topsychiatric nursing

practice.

DrugProfile

boxes present a thoroughpictureof commonly

prescribedmedications for patientswithmental health

problems. Examples include lorazepam (Ativan), an anxiolytic,

andmirtazapine (Remeron), an antidepressant.Theprofiles

complement the text discussionsof biologic processes known tobe

associatedwithvariousmental healthdisorders.

KeyDiagnosticCharacteristics

summariesdescribediagnostic

criteria, target symptoms, and associatedfindings for select

disorders, adapted from theDSM-5by theAmericanPsychiatric

Association.

NursingDiagnosisConceptMaps

help students learn toorganize

complexpatient data into ameaningful nursingdiagnosis and

visually link key conceptsof adisorder to in-practice examples.

Table of Contents

Unit I:

MentalHealthCare in

ContemporarySociety

Unit II:

Foundationsof Psychiatric

Nursing

Unit III:

ContemporaryPsychiatric

NursingPractice

s

Unit IV:

MentalHealthPromotion

Across the LifeSpan

UnitV:

PreventionofMental

Disorders

UnitVI:

CareandRecovery for

PersonsWithPsychiatricDisorders

UnitVII:

CareofChildrenand

AdolescentsWithPsychiatric

DisordersDiagnosed inChildhood

UnitVIII:

CareofOlderAdultsWith

NeuropsychiatricDisorders

Unit IX:

CareofSpecial Populations

AppendixA:

Brief PsychiatricRating

Scale

AppendixB:

Abnormal Involuntary

MovementScale (AIMS)

AppendixC:

SimplifiedDiagnosis for

TardiveDyskinesia (SD-TD)

Glossary

Index

…Abridged tofit

NEW !