Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

• Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice.
• Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
• Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews.
• Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting.
• Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills.
• Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders.
• Considering Culture　boxes　discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations.
• Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse’s role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects.

Undergraduate nursing students