Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book (ePub)

The 7^th edition of this market-leading textbook offers a clear, straightforward way to understand the often intimidating subject of psychiatric mental health nursing. Its practical, clinical perspective and user-friendly writing style help you quickly master key concepts. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application with a wealth of real-world examples to prepare you for practice.

• UNIQUE! A conversational, user-friendly writing style helps you quickly grasp complex psychiatric mental health nursing concepts.
• Clinical chapters are logically and consistently organized with sections on the clinical picture, epidemiology, comorbidity, etiology, and application of the nursing process.
• Clinical chapters follow the nursing process, providing you with consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
• Vignettes prepare you for real-world practice with personal, descriptive characterizations of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
• Coverage of psychopharmacology in clinical chapters familiarizes you with specific drug treatment options, including the most commonly used drugs and important nursing considerations for their use.
• Assessment Guidelines boxes list essential guidelines for comprehensive patient assessment.
• Case Studies with Nursing Care Plans present individualized histories of patients with specific psychiatric disorders and include interventions with rationales and evaluation statements for each patient goal.
• A separate chapter on cultural implications, as well as Considering Culture boxes throughout the text, provides essential information on culture, worldviews, and techniques for providing culturally competent care.
• Coverage of treatment and recovery in the community addresses the need for successful ongoing psychiatric mental health nursing care in the community setting.
• A chapter on end-of-life care examines the psychological impact of terminal illness and death on patients, families, and nurses.