author: sheila l videbeck

With this classic text, you'll discover the essential care plan models you need to enhance the consistency and effectiveness of your nursing care and to improve communication among the health care team.

A strong focus on student self-awareness and family and community resources makes this a practical text for today's nursing student.

This supplemental text of 54 updated nursing care plans addresses the most commonly encountered behaviors and behavior complexes in psychiatric and mental health nursing.

This exceptional text brings psychiatric nursing to life with foundational theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical application for all the major DSM-IV-TR disorders across the treatment continuum.

... WHAT IS THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION ? Therapeutic communication is an interpersonal interaction between the nurse and the client during which the nurse focuses on the client's specific needs to promote an effective exchange of information ...

Judith M. Schultz, Sheila L. Videbeck. nursing orientation programs or discussion of nursing assessment , planning , and intervention also can use written care plans . The Manual can be used as a resource in planning programs like these ...

... schizophrenia . The APA ( 2000 ) now places this into a separate category . The symptoms are neither ex- clusively those of a major mood disorder nor of a schizophrenia ; rather , they are a combination of both . Etiology Evidence ...

... Care Plan 10 , Suicidal Behavior . Institute seizure precautions as appropriate , ac- cording to hospital policy ( e.g. , padded tongue blade in room , padded side rails , side rails up at night ) . Be aware of PRN medication orders to ...

... deceased , wearing black clothing or armbands is customary during mourning . Family and friends place wreaths on the ... Catholic . They may pray for the soul of the deceased during a novena ( 9 - day devo- tion ) and a rosary ( devotional ...

An outstanding resource for students and practicing nurses, the Ninth Edition of Lippincott's Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans contains 52 nursing care plans that address the most commonly encountered behaviors in psychiatric-mental ...

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The First UK Edition of this popular core text explores the full mental health nursing care continuum within a flexible, person-centred framework.

Throughout the text, students have opportunities to practice specific nursing interventions, build therapeutic communication skills, and apply content within the framework of the nursing process.