Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications

Completely revised and updated throughout, the 9th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including the DSM-5, all of today’s new psychotropic medications, and the 2012-2014 content in the NANDA ...

-- Each chapter covers a specific group of DSM IV disorders including: definition, predisposing factors, and symptomatology -- Each nursing diagnosis includes the definition, possible etiologies, defining characteristics, goals/objectives, ...

It’s really 2 books in 1!

This new edition combines Townsend's Pocket Guide and selected drug classifications with the associated drug data from Townsend's Drug Guide into one accessible reference.

The 143 Comprehensive Person-Centered nursing care plans for long term care in this book and on the CD cover every nursing diagnosis and nursing care plan problem that may be generated from the Minimum Data Set - MDS 3.0.

... questions regarding prognosis ; this hesi- tancy can lead to patients misjudging their chance of cure or life prolongation , which may impact their decision - making.7 Although most nurses do not feel adequately trained to participate ...

Neurocritical Care Nursing Management of Stroke, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing ... pneumonia. Stroke 2005;36(9):1972–6. 3. Chang MC, Choo YJ, Seo KC, et al ... aspiration nursing care plan. Labs risk for aspiration nursing care plan ...

Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use.

... Suicidal ideation • Suicide plan • Lack of personal resources ( e.g. , coping skills , insight , judgment ) • Lack of social resources ( e.g. , socially isolated , unre- sponsive family ) 5. Develop a safety plan for dealing with ...

As a nurse, you always have to be at your best.

... match the columns below to indicate the items contained in each area described on the right . Do this by writing the appropriate letter or letters in each blank space ... code to use to indicate your answers . For example , here is a code ...

Color-coded sections help the reader quickly find each content area while giving the book a full-color look and feel.

The unique "four books in one" approach includes pediatric, maternal, and psychiatric nursing care plans in addition to medical-surgical care plans.

... DVT studies (e.g., venogram, duplex Doppler ultrasound, impedence plethysmography): To monitor for development of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Nursing Diagnosis: Autonomic Dysreflexia (or risk for same) related to exaggerated unopposed ...

... nurses along with all health care professionals were challenged to find innovative solutions to deliver high-quality, safe care to patients. Technology played a significant role in supporting that work. QUALITY AND SAFETY COMPETENCY IN ...

Presents more than five hundred nursing care plans containing an overview of each disorder, a review of its pathophysiology, common nursing diagnoses, assessment parameters, diagnostic tests, and nursing interventions.

Case Studies, Nursing Diagnoses, and Care Plans Luc Reginald Pelletier. RICHARD : OBSESSIVE - COMPULSIVE DISORDER to possibly a more psychobiologically oriented model in discovering the etiology of OCD . Insel and colleagues ( 1983 ) ...

This packaged contains: Shives, Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 7e (9780781797078) and Lippincott's Interactive Case Studies in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (9781605473567)

The book then applies psychiatric nursing principles to specific clinical disorders based on adaptive-maladaptive coping responses, the six-step nursing process, and DSM-IV-TR and NANDA diagnoses.

Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health ... examination on patients who are admitted for treatment of psychiatric disorders and conditions. A complete ... example of a basic MSE. The MSE aids in collecting and organizing objective ...

... complete laboratory testing as part of data gathering. A simple blood test ... example of the basic structure of and some descriptors for an MSE. BOX 6.3 ... Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 79 Laboratory data Mental status examination.