Contemporary Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Psychiatric Card Pkg

by Kneisl, Carol Ren; Trigoboff, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780131510173
• ISBN10: 0131510177
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover w/CD
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For undergraduate courses in Psychiatric or Mental Health Nursing. This new textbook has been developed focusing on two central themes1)evidence-based nursing practice and 2)global mental health. It provides students with the most current, culturally competent, authoritative, and comprehensive resource available. Supporting and interactive material can be found on the companion website and CD-ROM. the text is based upon Psychiatric Nursing previously published by Wilson & Kneisl.

Table of Contents

I. THEORETICAL BASIS FOR MENTAL-HEALTH NURSING. 1. The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse's Personal Integration and Professional Role. 2. Philosophy and Theory for Interdisciplinary Psychiatric Care. 3. Evidence-Based Practice in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. 4. Psychobiology, Behavior, and Mental Disorders. 5. Stress, Anxiety, and Coping. 6. Cultural Competence and Psychiatric Epidemology. II. APPLYING PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROCESSES AND COMPETENCIES. 7. The Nursing Process with Psychiatric-Mental Health Clients. 8. Therapeutic Communication. 9. Assessment. 10. Clients' Rights, Ethics, and Advocacy. 11. Creating a Therapeutic Environment. III. CLIENTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS. 12. Cognitive Disorders. 13. Substance-Related Disorders. 14. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. 15. Mood Disorders. 16. Anxiety, Somatoform, and Dissociative Disorders. 17. Gender Identity and Sexual Disorders. 18. Eating Disorders. 19. Sleep Disorders. 20. Personality Disorders. 21. The Client with Coexisting Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. IV. VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. 22. Clients at Risk for Suicide and Self Destructive Behavior. 23. Persons at Risk for Abuse and Violence. 24. Psychiatric-Mental Health Clients with HIV/AIDS. 25. Children. 26. Adolescents. 27. Elders. V. NURSING INTERVENTION STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES. 28. Counseling the Individual. 29. Group and Family Interventions. 30. Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions. 31. Psychopharmacology. 32. Alternative and Complementary Healing Practices. 33. Crisis Intervention. 34. Intervening in Violence in the Psychiatric Setting. 35. Forensic Psychiatric Nursing.

Excerpts

Millions of people worldwide suffer from mental health disorders. In fact, five of the leading causes of disability in the world today are psychiatric in nature. Psychiatric-mental health nursing is a specialized area that employs a wide range of explanatory theories and research on human behavior as its science and the purposeful use of self as its art. Understanding people who are searching for meaning through interaction in complex times demands the most authoritative and contemporary knowledge and clinical competence. It is through the power of knowledge and clinical competence that psychiatric-mental health nurses can help clients from diverse cultures to live with uncertainty, unfamiliarity and unpredictability and to pursue creative healing on psychobiologic and spiritual levels. Our goal for this textbook,Contemporary Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing,and its companion supplements is to provide students and practicing psychiatric-mental health nurses with the most up-to-date, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative, comprehensive resource available and to present it in an accessible, clinically relevant, and professional format. UNDERLYING THEMES Throughout this textbook, we as authors try to remain true to values of humanism, interactionism, cultural competence, the relevance of meaning, and the importance of empathy and empowerment in the nurse-client relationship. We believe that psychiatric-mental health nursing is concerned with the quality of human life and its relationship to optimal psychobiologic health, feelings of self-worth, personal integrity, self-fulfillment, spirituality, and creative expression. The psychiatric-mental health nurse's scope of practice is broad enough to include issues such as alienation, identity crises, sudden life changes, and troubled family relationships. It may involve issues of poverty and affluence, cross-cultural disparities in access to health care, and the human experiences of birth, death, and loss. Psychiatric-mental health nursing is concerned with sustaining and enhancing the mental health of both the individual and the group, while its practice locale is often found in the community. In exploring the theme of global mental health, each unit of this book opens with compelling photographs and stories of individuals from around the world who face a variety of mental health issues. By presenting the readers with this global perspective, we hope to promote awareness of the relevance of those same global issues in our own culturally diverse society. Along these lines, we selected a Mandela to represent the essence of this book.Mandelais the Sanskrit word for circle and symbolizes wholeness or organization around a unifying center. The goal of this book is to explore science, art, and spirituality as a path toward our shared vision of global mental health. It is synthesis of elements important to a holistic view. The Mandela used throughout this book and on its cover is entitled The Great Mother, created by Cynthia Cunningham Baxter. It consists of hands and a mother tree, which is consistent with nursing's goals of care, compassion, and comfort. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS The themes, ideas, knowledge, tools, and organization of this textbook were expressly designed for psychiatric-mental health nursing students and clinicians who are committed to developing the habits of mind, responsibility, and practice that will make a difference in view of contemporary trends. Specifically, this text prepares students to tailor and humanize interventions for traditional as well as "new" psychiatricmental health clients often encountered in forensic settings, homeless shelters, and in other community-based and rehabilitation-oriented settings. Furthermore, because advances in neuroscience and the study of the human genome are redefining our conception of the basis for mental disorders, a solid grounding in psychobiology is thre