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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
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