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Keltner’s Psychiatric Nursing

  • 9th Edition - February 25, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Debbie Steele
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Psychiatric**Gain the skills you need to provide safe and effective psychiatric nursing care! Keltner’s Psychiatric Nursing, 9th Edit… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Psychiatric**

Gain the skills you need to provide safe and effective psychiatric nursing care! Keltner’s Psychiatric Nursing, 9th Edition provides a solid foundation in the knowledge required to manage and care for patients with psychiatric disorders. It features a unique, three-pronged approach to psychotherapeutic management emphasizing the nurse’s three primary tools: themselves and their relationship with patients, medications, and the therapeutic environment. New to this edition are Next Generation NCLEX® exam-style case studies to help you learn clinical judgment and prepare for success on the NCLEX. Known for its clear and friendly writing style, this text covers psychiatric nursing like no other book on the market.

Key features

  • UNIQUE! Practical, three-pronged approach to psychotherapeutic management includes: 1) the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, 2) psychopharmacology, and 3) milieu management
  • UNIQUE! Norm’s Notes offer personal, helpful tips from Norman Keltner — an expert educator and the book’s erstwhile author — in each chapter
  • UNIQUE! Putting It All Together summaries are provided at the end of each psychopathology chapter
  • DSM-5 information is integrated throughout the text, along with new ICNP content
  • Nursing care plans highlight the nurse’s role in psychiatric care, emphasizing assessment, planning, nursing diagnoses, implementation, and evaluation for specific disorders
  • Case studies depict psychiatric disorders and show the development of effective nursing care strategies
  • Critical thinking questions help you develop clinical reasoning skills
  • Family Issues boxes highlight the issues that families must confront when a member suffers from mental illness
  • Patient and Family Education boxes highlight information that the nurse should provide to patients and families
  • Learning resources on the Evolve website include lecture slides, psychotropic drug monographs, and NCLEX® exam-style review questions

Table of contents

UNIT I. The Basics

1. Me, Meds, Milieu

2. Historical Issues

3. Legal Issues

4. Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior

5. Cultural Issues

6. Spirituality Issues

UNIT II. You (Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship)

7. Models for Working With Psychiatric Patients

8. Learning to Communicate Professionally

9. Working With an Individual Patient

10. Working With Groups of Patients

11. Working With the Family

UNIT III. Medication (Psychopharmacology)

12. Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs

13. Antiparkinsonian Drugs

14. Antipsychotic Drugs

15. Antidepressant Drugs

16. Antimanic Drugs

17. Antianxiety Drugs

18. Antidementia Drugs

19. Alternative Preparations and Over-the-Counter Drugs

UNIT IV. Environment: Milieu Management

20. Introduction to Milieu Management

21. Variables Affecting the Therapeutic Environment: Violence and Suicide

22. Therapeutic Environment in Various Treatment Settings

UNIT V. Putting It All Together (Psychopathology)

23. Introduction to Psychopathology

24. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

25. Depressive Disorders

26. Bipolar Disorders

27. Anxiety-Related, Obsessive-Compulsive, Trauma and Stressor-Related, Somatic, and Dissociative Disorders

28. Neurocognitive Disorders

29. Personality Disorders

30. Sexual Disorders and Gender Dysphoria

31. Substance Use Disorders

32. Eating Disorders

UNIT VI. Special Populations

33. Survivors of Violence and Trauma

34. Children and Adolescents

35. Older Adults

36. Soldiers and Veterans

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 25, 2022
  • Language: English