Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications - Softcover

Mary C Townsend

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803642377 ISBN 13: 9780803642379

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company, 2014

Synopsis

Here s the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. It s really two books in one! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings...from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic...to home health and private practice. Completely revised and updated throughout, the 9th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including the DSM-5, all of today s new psychotropic medications, and the 2012-2014 content in the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Taxonomy II. KEY FEATURES Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers. Concept Mapping and the use of Concept Care Map Plans introduced in Chapter 1. Organized by DSM-5 and NANDA diagnoses. Nursing diagnoses and interventions include the definition, possible etiologies ("Related to ..."), defining characteristics ("Evidenced by ..."), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria. Each psychiatric disorder lists background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions commonly associated with the disorder. Unit on psychotropic drug classifications covers anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications. CONTENTS INDEX OF CLIENT BEHAVIORS INDEX OF DSM-5 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES HOW TO USE THIS BOOK I. THE FOUNDATION FOR PLANNING PSYCHIATRIC NURSING CARE 1. Nursing Process: One Step to Professionalism II. ALTERATIONS IN PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION 2. Disorders Commonly Associated with Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence 3. Neurocognitive Disorders 4. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders 5. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 6. Depressive Disorders 7. Bipolar and Related Disorders 8. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders 9. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders 10. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders 11. Dissociative Disorders 12. Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria 13. Eating Disorders 14. Personality Disorders III. SPECIAL TOPICS IN PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 15. Problems Related to Abuse or Neglect 16. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder 17. Homelessness 18. Psychiatric Home Nursing Care 19. Forensic Nursing 20. Complementary Therapies 21. Loss and Bereavement 22. Working with Military Families IV. PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS 23. Antianxiety Agents 24. Antidepressants 25. Mood Stabilizing Agents 26. Antipsychotic Agents 27. Antiparkinsonian Agents 28. Sedative-Hypnotics 29. Agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

About this edition

• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0803642377
• ISBN 13: 9780803642379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704