Psychiatric Carer Plans: Guidelines for Planning and Documenting Client Care - Softcover

Doenges, Marilynn E.; Moorhouse, Mary Frances; Townsend, Mary C.

9780803626737: Psychiatric Carer Plans: Guidelines for Planning and Documenting Client Care

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803626738 ISBN 13: 9780803626737

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company, 1995

This is an essential reference with 36 care plans to help nurses and nursing students identify appropriate diagnoses and prioritize nursing interventions in the care of the psychiatric client. Includes the latest DSM IV, as well as the DSM III-R terminology to ease in the transition for the reader, the newest ANA Psychiatric Standards of Care, estimated length of stay for acute disorders, and related concerns/potential complications.

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Synopsis:

This text includes up-to-date DSM IV terminology, with 40 care plan guidelines that should help nurses and nursing students identify appropriate nursing diagnoses and prioritize nursing interventions in the care of the psychiatric client within both community and institutional settings. The book includes critical pathways for working in case management situations. Focusing on wellness, the book uses a decision-making model to apply the nursing process to psychiatric clients and their significant others, including members of their extended families.

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