Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales Mental Health Nursing

by Hogan, MaryAnn; Gruener, Rebecca RN, MS; Gaylord, Cory DNSc, APNP; Rodgers, Jean RN, MN; Zalice, Kristyn Kameg, MSN, CRNP

• ISBN13: 9780132240772
• ISBN10: 0132240777
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-09
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of mental-health nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Unique to Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series, a comprehensive CD-ROM and Companion Website, available free of charge, provide additional review.Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering therapeutic communication, developmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, cognitive mental disorders, substance abuse, crisis intervention and suicide, death and dying, and much more.For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.

Author Biography

Mary Ann Hogan, MSN, RN has been a nurse educator for 25 years, currently as a Clinical

Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in

diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs.A former item writer for

the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam,Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout

New England for the last 15 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications

in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member

of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor

Society for Nursing.

Table of Contents

Overview of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Crisis Intervention and Suicide

Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Developmental Disabilitiess

Mood Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Somatoform Disordersnbsp;

Dissociative Disorders

Personality Disorders

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Delirium, Dementia, and Other Cognitive Mental Disorders

Substance Use Disorders

Family Violence and Sexual Assault NEW CHAPTER

Loss, Grief, and Death

Psychological Adaptation to Mental Illness

Appendix

Answers to Practice to Pass & Case Studies

Index

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