Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology (Varcarolis, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans)
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A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 5th Edition supplies you with the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5, for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. It offers quick and easy access to plans of care for a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth Varcarolis, provides a clinically-based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use.
The latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you up-to-date with the most current information. Care plans containing nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long- and short-term goals, and interventions and rationales offer plans of care for a wide range of psychiatric nursing diagnoses. A focus on clinical information furnishes you with information on providing patient care in a range of settings. Assessment Guides, including tables, charts, and questionnaires facilitate patient diagnosis and care. A chapter on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Patient and Family Teaching, in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter, helps you better understand the uses and workings of the psychotropic agents. Coverage of major disorders exposes you to a wide range of disorders within psychiatric nursing. The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-5 taxonomy (due to publish May 2013) with diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients.Current psychiatric nursing guidelines are based on ANA's 2007 Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.
Updated 2009-2011 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses assist with accurate diagnoses by including the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing.
Updated drug information includes the latest on medications used with psychiatric patients, for optimal drug therapy.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1455740195
ISBN13:9781455740192
Release Date:April 2014
Publisher:Saunders
Length:768 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:7.3" x 1.0" x 4.5"
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5 ratings
NOT just careplans - tons of useful info for psych class & beyond
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This was required for my psych rotation and initially I almost didn't buy it (many classes have extra texts that you don't really need - I thought this might be one...) However, our professor emphasized that the psych dx in regular nursing care plan books aren't right & don't have all that pertain specifically to psych/mental health and lack correct interventions. As it turns out, I used this little book significantly more than I used the primary text for the class! It has info on the various psych drugs with indications & things to watch out for, info on appropriate communication styles when dealing with individuals displaying particular behaviours incl. therapeutic communication, descriptions of all the various defense mechanisms etc. It's really worth the $$$. This is one text I will keep beyond nursing school for easy reference to all things psych.
psyc nursing care plan book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
great book, helps with psyc care plans a lot. Great price, cheaper than college bookstore.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book was very helpful...If you have the Mental Health book by Elizabeth Varcarolis 5th edition then this book is good to have. It helps with careplans and it has a lot of the psychiatric meds plus interventions. Example with Lithium; for Bipolar-you want to check serum lithium levels weekly/biweekly during therapy. It gives you interventions and nursing considerations for the drugs. So it does have a lot of information in it. Its small but it is a great book to have for Mental Health.
Great tool for better understand of psychiatric disorders
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This was recommended to me by a classmate. It also was valuable when working on a focused care plan. I continue to go to it to emphasize what I had learned through readings and lectures.If psychatric nursing is not your forte, this will definetly help you out.
Excellent
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Excellent resource for my altered mental health nursing course. Lots of information and easy to follow. I would recommend this as a supplement to any psych nursing course.
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