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Psychiatric • Mental Health
Essentials of Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice
Mary Ann Boyd, PhD, DNS, RN, PMHCNS-BC
978-1-4963-3214-1 • February 2016 • Softbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 640 pp • 60 Illus
Offering a unique focus on communication skills, mental health
promotion, and evidence-based, recovery-oriented nursing care
of people with common mental health disorders, this concise and
engaging text presents essential concepts in easy-to-understand
language with multiple examples and explanations. Compelling case
studies—supported by online videos that play out the scenarios in
more depth—show students how to apply theory to specific patients,
providing a seamless transition to the practice world.
Features
• Key Diagnostic Characteristics summaries describe diagnostic
criteria, target symptoms, and associated findings for select
disorders, adapted from the DSM-5 by the American Psychiatric
Association
• Profile boxes present a thorough picture of commonly prescribed
medications for patients with mental health problems. The profiles
complement the text discussions of biologic processes known to be
associated with various mental health disorders
• Studies interwoven in the mental health disorder chapters are
brought to life by online videos of these case patients displaying
these disorders.
• Videos series, Lippincott Theory to Practice Video Series:
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing includes videos of true-to-life
patients (corresponding to case studies in the text) displaying
mental health disorders, allowing students to gain experience and
a deeper understanding of mental health patients
• Concept Mastery Alerts utilize data from prepU quizzing to
highlight common misconceptions and difficult-to-understand
material.
• Nursing Care Plans (found online), based on case scenarios, present
clinical examples of patients with a particular diagnosis and
demonstrate plans of care that follow patients through various
diagnostic stages and care delivery settings
• Movies list current examples of movies that depict various mental
health disorders and that are widely available on DVD for rent
or purchase. Viewing points are provided to serve as a basis for
discussion in class and among students.
• Clinical Vignette boxes present reality-based clinical portraits
of patients who exhibit the symptoms described in the text.
Questions are posed to help students express their thoughts and
identify solutions to issues presented in the vignettes.
• Research for Best Practice boxes highlight today’s focus on
evidence-based practice for best practice, presenting findings and
implications of studies that are applicable to psychiatric nursing
practice.
Table of Contents
UNIT I: Essentials of Mental Health Care
UNIT II: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Frameworks
UNIT III: Knowledge & Skills of Psychiatric-
Mental Health Nursing
UNIT IV: Prevention of Mental Disorders
UNIT V: Care & Recovery for Persons with
Mental Health Disorders
UNIT VI: Care of Special Populations
App A Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
App B Abnormal Involuntary Movement
Scale (AIMS)
App C Simplified Diagnosis for Tardive
Dyskinesia (SD-TD)
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