Handbook of Psychiatric Nursing
- 6th Edition - March 15, 2005
- Latest edition
- Author: Gail Wiscarz Stuart
- Language: English
This invaluable pocket guide equips readers with clinical tools to help conceptualize, plan, and document nursing care actions – based on the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of… Read more
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This invaluable pocket guide equips readers with clinical tools to help conceptualize, plan, and document nursing care actions – based on the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of health and wellness from Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing. Brief paragraphs and bulleted lists point out general psychiatric care planning concepts, followed by specific psychiatric nursing care considerations with dozens of treatment plan summaries and other assessment tools. It offers the latest information on all topics, including psychotropic medications, somatic treatments, and alternative therapies.
- Valuable assessment tools and strategies are included for psychiatric nursing practice.
- Nursing care is presented according to the latest ANA Standards of Care.
- Nursing Treatment Plan Summaries guide nursing care associated with major disorders.
- Evidence-based algorithms direct clinical care for psychiatric patients.
- Summarizing the Evidence boxes present evidence-based treatments for psychiatric disorders.
- Patient Education Plans and Family Education Plans stress the importance of patient teaching.
- Nursing Alert boxes offer practical guidance and advice for specific nursing considerations.
- Continuum of Care boxes highlight care in a range of settings.
- DSM-IV-TR medical and NANDA nursing diagnoses are provided for major disorders, enabling nurses to maintain a nursing focus while understanding the medical relationship.
Unit One Foundations of Practice1. Psychiatric Nursing Practice2. Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship3. Biopsychosocial Assessment4. Nursing and Medical Diagnoses5. Prevention and Mental Health Promotion6. Crisis Intervention7. Rehabilitation and Recovery8. Legal-Ethical Issues9. Implementing Clinical Practice Standards Unit Two Clinical Care10. Anxiety Responses and Anxiety Disorders11. Psychophysiological Responses and Somatoform and Sleep Disorders12. Self-Concept Responses and Dissociative Disorders13. Emotional Responses and Mood Disorders14. Self-Protective Responses and Suicidal Behavior15. Neurobiological Responses and Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders16. Social Responses and Personality Disorders17. Cognitive Responses and Organic Mental Disorders18. Chemically Mediated Responses and Substance-Related Disorders19. Eating Regulation Responses and Eating Disorders20. Sexual Responses and Sexual Disorders 21. Psychopharmacology22. Somatic and Alternative Therapies
- Edition: 6
- Latest edition
- Published: March 15, 2005
- Language: English
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Gail Wiscarz Stuart
Affiliations and expertise
Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC