Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

by Frisch, Noreen Cavan; Frisch, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9781435400771
• ISBN10: 1435400771
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-19
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Creating the perfect balance of knowledge-based and skills-based content you will find no better tool for learning the information and the empathy required in psychiatric nursing care than Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Fourth Edition. The book approaches this topic with a unique perspective that will immediately engage and educate readers by utilizing excerpts from literature movie clips and classic art to convey the actual experiences of clients with psychiatric disorders. Coverage includes the scientific basis for major conditions and disorder types such as anxiety depression mania and schizophrenia followed by therapeutic and pharmacological interventions for the people experiencing them. Special consideration is also provided for the suicidal client the client who abuses chemical substances and survivors of violence or abuse and special populations including the homeless and the incarcerated. An important chapter on self-care for the nurse provides much needed information about taking care of oneself to sustain professional ability. Comprehensive in its scope and one-of-a-kind in its delivery this is a valuable resource that informatively and accurately presents the realities of psychiatric nursing care.

Table of Contents

Foundations for Practice

Through the Door: Your First Day in Psychiatric Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing: Evolution of a Specialty

Theory as Basis for Practice

Neuroscience as a Basis for Practice

Diagnostic Systems for Psychiatric Nursing

Tools for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Communication

Nursing Process and the Nurse-Client Relationship

Cultural and Ethnic Considerations

Epidemiology of Mental Health and Illness

Ethical and Legal Bases for Care

Self-Care for the Nurse

Clients With Psychiatric Disorders

The Client Undergoing Crisis

The Client Experiencing Anxiety

The Client Experiencing Schizophrenia

The Client Experiencing Depression

The Client Experiencing Mania

The Client Who Is Suicidal

The Client Who Abuses Chemical Substances

The Client with a Personality Disorder

The Client Experiencing a Somatoform

Factitious or Dissociative Disorder

The Client with Disorders of Self-Regulation: Sleep Disorders

Eating Disorders

Sexual Disorders

Special Populations

The Physically Ill Client Experiencing Emotional Distress

Forgotten Populations: the Homeless and the Incarcerated

The Child

The Adolescent

The Elderly

Survivors of Violence or Abuse

Nursing Interventions and Treatment Modalities

Pharmacology in Psychiatric Care

Individual Psychotherapy

Family Therapy

Group Therapy

Community Mental Health Nursing

Complementary and Somatic Therapies

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