Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

by Mary C. Townsend

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The 4th Edition of this popular text clearly and concisely presents the fundamentals of psychiatric nursing in a user friendly design and reader-friendly writing style that reflects the voice of a single author.Continued emphasis on holistic nursing and mind/body connection includes both physical and psychosocial nursing diagnoses for physiological disorders (e.g., asthma, migraine headache, hypertension) and for psychological disorders (such as somatoform and eating disorders).It includes a brand-new chapter - Cultural and Spiritual Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. It provides discussions of concept mapping and concept map care plans for all major psychiatric disorders. It provides up-to-date coverage of the latest psychotropic drugs. It features "Core Concept" boxes in all chapters.It provides updated NANDA terminology. It includes in-depth content on the bereaved individual, dementia, disaster nursing, and suicide, as well as psychosocial therapies. It provides comprehensive, information on psychotropic medications. It provides twenty-one sample "Client Teaching Guides" for psychotropic medications and psychiatric illnesses which then can be reproduced for use in patient education. It provides "Implications of Research for Evidence-Based Practice" for specific nursing interventions. It includes "Test Your Critical Thinking Skills" boxes with case studies and exercises. It includes appendices with DSM-IV-TR classifications, NANDA diagnoses and behaviors, critical pathways, and guidelines for mental health assessment, as well as a complete glossary.

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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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3 out of 5 stars

The chapters should be in a different more organized order, 2008-07-03
I don't really like the way this book is layed out. My instructor jumps around too much in it and I can't keep up. In one lecture she teaches stuff from 4 different chapters here and there. So, this book could be layed out a little more organized in the next edition. It's fairly easy to read though. But a little wordy at times and can be repetitive.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

psyche book, 2007-10-01
The book is informative and doesn't confuse you with too much information. It is also small and light weight compared to my other nursing books.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Third Edition, 2007-03-27
Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Third Edition

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Great Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing book with CD, 2007-01-10
Great Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing book with CD. I highly recommend this book for nursing students taking Psych. The CD has very useful questions. A must have...for nursing students.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

EXCELLENT, 2006-02-26
Textbook is excellent. It comes with a disk that has the workbook on it and it is really helpful.

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