The updated Seventh Edition of this respected learning text delivers the clinically essential content psychiatric and mental health nurses need to practice with confidence. Spanning the continuum of care, this edition will help you excel in a range of settings, improve client and family education skills, and build the self-awareness you need as a member of the interdisciplinary care team. The book's wealth of new learning features and dynamic full-color design combine to create an engaging knowledge-builder you'll turn to again and again. Skill-building features are your guideposts to success!
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Bio-psycho-social model provides a solid learning framework that is emphasized throughout the text.</li> <li>
Self-awareness prompts in every chapter challenge you to examine your own beliefs and attitudes about caring for mentally ill clients.</li> <li>
Multiple-choice, NCLEX®-style questions for review and exam preparation include correct and incorrect answers with rationales.</li> <li>
An array of knowledge enhancing features—from Internet resources to Key Terms, Key Concepts, and recurring icons that highlight each step of nursing diagnosis and management—ensure that you never miss a step.</li> <li>
Critical thinking questions and learning activities put your problem-solving abilities to the test.</li>
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New to the Seventh Edition...
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New chapter on forensic nursing helps you build the observational and investigative abilities key to this evolving area of nursing practice.</li> <li>
New content on spirituality, added to the chapter on cultural and ethical issues, will help you build more effective therapeutic relationships with clients.</li> <li>
Updated psychopharmacological material includes critical information on the latest drugs, their treatment applications, and limitations—plus summary tables that highlight the major drugs used for each disorder.</li> <li>
The latest diagnostic criteria reflect DSM-IV-TR standards.</li> <li>
Evidence-Based Practice Boxes throughout the text stress the value of research findings in guiding treatment choices.</li>
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A Student Resource CD-ROM bound into each book includes clinical simulations for major depression and schizophrenia, psychotropic drug monographs, over 300 NCLEX®-style review questions, and movie viewing guides.

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Medical Books

Shives, Louise Rebraca

Nursing

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

This core text provides complete, succinct and easy-to-read coverage of the major concepts used in psychiatric/mental health nursing. This text addresses timely topics such as community mental health, eating disorders, child abuse and neglect, the abused adult in the family unit, rape and sexual assault, psychosocial aspects of aging and coping with AIDS. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with new chapters covering: Assessment of Psychiatric Patients, Diagnosis and Intervention, and Eating Disorders. Plentiful pedagogical tools include objectives and summaries, clinical examples, care plans, learning activities, self-tests and critical thinking questions.

...includes new features such as medication alerts, assessment tools, and patient teaching checklists...explores issues of managed care and living wills and focuses on the nursing process with Outcome Criteria.

Now in its Third Edition, this text presents essential pharmacology concepts in a streamlined, user-friendly fashion. Organized by body system, the book methodically explains the rationale for each drug class's therapeutic actions, contraindications, and adverse effects, ensuring that students fully understand this important content. Each chapter includes drug summary tables (with dosages), Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes, all-inclusive nursing care guides based on a typical case study with critical thinking tips and patient teaching checklists. Each chapter ends with NCLEX(R)-style questions and other questions to form a mini-study guide. New to this edition are Prototype Drug boxes with details on prototype drugs; Focus on the Evidence boxes promoting evidence-based practice; mid-chapter Focus Points summaries of key content; Focus on Patient Safety emphasizing the importance of delivering medications correctly to the patient; and increased pharmacokinetics information. A bound-in CD-ROM contains more than 700 patient teaching printouts, Canadian drug regulations, a free video on medication administration, additional NCLEX(R)-style questions, and other learning tools.

Focus on Nursing Pharmacology + Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Lippincott's Photo Atlas of Medication Administration

Karch, Amy M.

This package contains the following products:9781605478876 Shives Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 8e9781608317875 Timby Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts, 10e9781451151671 Timby Workbook for Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts, 10e9781451192803 Cohen Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease, 13e9781451193480 Hull Study Guide to Accompany Memmler The Human Body in Health and Disease, 13e

Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts + Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease

Cohen, Barbara Janson

Hull, Kerry, L.

Timby, Barbara Kuhn, RN

Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis + Maternal and Child Health Nursing + Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Nurses' Handbook of Health ... Nursing Assessment + NCLEX Review 4000

Weber, Janet

Kelley, Jane

Pillitteri, Adele

Carpenito-Moyet, Lynda Juall

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Lippincott's Interactive Case Studies in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

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Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Focus on Nursing Pharmacology + Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Lippincott's Photo Atlas of Medication Administration

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts + Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease

Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis + Maternal and Child Health Nursing + Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Nurses' Handbook of Health ... Nursing Assessment + NCLEX Review 4000

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing + Lippincott's Interactive Case Studies in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing