author: mary c townsend

Includes 36 care plans; DSM III-R and DSM IV definitions for each care plan; new ANA Psychiatric Standards of Care and NANDA nursing diagnoses; a decision-making model to organize and prioritize nursing interventions; and a sample client ...

... Care with Nursing Diagnosis 19. * Fluid Volume deficit [ Isotonic ] Fluid Volume deficit , risk ... ineffective Infection , risk for Injury , risk for * Knowledge deficit ... Tissue Integrity , impaired Tissue Perfusion , altered ( specify ) ...

... depression, and grief (even among individuals who initiate divorce). In ... Intervention at the secondary level of prevention with parents can be ... nurse can assist parents who are grieving the loss of a child or the birth of a child ...

New DSM-5 content! 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’s really 2 books in 1!

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, ...

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.

This second edition of the guide for mental health nurses includes two new chapters, on complementary therapies and the ageing individual, internet references for each DSM-IV-TR diagnosis, patient teaching tables and up-to-date NANDA ...

Acclaimed as the most clearly written text on the subject, this title offers nursing issues, theoretical concepts, and perspectives on various disorders and therapies not found in other texts.

Take an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing with the text that s concise, engaging, and informative.

-- Geared toward nursing programs that devote less than six weeks to psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Uses the stress-adaptation model as its conceptual framework -- Each disorder includes: historic and epidemiologic factors, background ...

Take an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing ... with the text that's concise, engaging, and informative.

... military has risen dramatically since 2001, the year that detailed record-keeping began. This number reached an all-time ... 2015 President Obama signed into law the Clayton Hunt SAV (suicide prevention for American veterans) Act which ...

Students and psychiatric nurses will sharpen their diagnostic skills from the extensively updated revision of Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing.