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  • Author: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis RN MA
  • Language: English

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>>>>The 6th 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. …More Info >>

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  1. John Matlock “Gunny”
    January 26th, 2011 at 12:49 | #1
    18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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    Much Improved Fifth Edition., March 10, 2006
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    John Matlock “Gunny” (Winnemucca, NV) – See all my reviews
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    Any book of thys type that has gone through five editions has to have something going for it, and This book has many. Perhaps the most important is the writing style which is as light and casual as it can be considering the subject. The goal is, of course, to prepare the student for a career. The…

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  2. Katherine Ko “powellka”
    January 26th, 2011 at 12:58 | #2
    12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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    Great book for introductory mental health nursing, February 8, 2004
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    We used this in my psych/mental health theory class. I really liked this book. It’s written on a level that was easy enough to follow but still gave me a strong base to draw from in clinical. Also, because it had little vignettes throughout each chapter, I found that it didn’t bore me to death…

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  3. P. Halbert
    January 26th, 2011 at 13:28 | #3
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    Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing A Clinical Approach, January 22, 2007
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    I purchased this book because of my psych clinical rotations in Nursing School. I have found the book to be very informative and fairly easy to understand. The chapters on specific disorders are really interesting. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to understand psychiatric…

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