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Psychiatric Nursing

  • 8th Edition - April 5, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Norman L. Keltner, Debbie Steele
  • Language: English

Covering the field’s latest trends and treatments, Psychiatric Nursing, 8th Edition provides you with the solid, therapeutic skills you need to deliver safe and effective psychi… Read more

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Covering the field’s latest trends and treatments, Psychiatric Nursing, 8th Edition provides you with the solid, therapeutic skills you need to deliver safe and effective psychiatric nursing care. This new edition features a unique, three-pronged approach to psychotherapeutic management which emphasizes the nurse’s three primary tools: themselves and their relationship with patients, medications, and the environment. Written in a friendly, approachable style, this text clearly defines the nurse’s role in caring for individuals with psychiatric disorders like no other book on the market!

Key features

  • Unique! A 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 helpful tips from the lead author, Norman Keltner, at the beginning of each chapter, making it easier to understand difficult topics
  • DSM-5 information is integrated throughout the text, along with updated content and NANDA content
  • Patient and Family Education boxes highlight information that the nurse should provide to patients and families
  • 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

Table of contents

Unit I: The Basics

1. You, Medication, Environment: 3 Tools of the Psychiatric Nurse

2. Historical Issues

3. Legal Issues

4. Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior

5. Cultural Issues

6. Spiritual 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. 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. Cognitive Disorders

29. Personality Disorders

30. Sexual Disorders

31. Substance Abuse 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: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 3, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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Norman L. Keltner

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama - Birmingham, Birmingham, AL