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Accompanying CD-ROM has review questions for the NCLEX examination, interactive exercises, animations, and an audio glossary.
A Practical Focus on the Skills and Concepts Essential to Your Success With an accessible, clear and student-friendly approach, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing clarifies challenging concepts and helps you build a foundation for working successfully with clients experiencing mental health challenges regardless of care setting. The text explores the full spectrum of psychiatric nursing, helping you master specific nursing interventions, hone your therapeutic communication skills and learn to apply content effectively within the framework of the nursing process. New! Unfolding Patient Stories written by the National League for Nursing put the nursing process in a realistic context to prepare ...
Accompanying CD-ROM has nursing care plans, a customizable psychosocial assessment tool, and monographs about psychotropic drugs.
"With an accessible, clear, and student-friendly approach, "Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing" clarifies challenging concepts and helps you build a foundation for working successfully with clients experiencing mental health challenges regardless of care setting. The text explores the full spectrum of psychiatric nursing, helping you master specific nursing interventions, hone your therapeutic communication skills, and learn to apply content effectively within the framework of the nursing process."Publisher's description.
This book fills the gap in the market for an introductory text on mental health nurses that explores the psychological interventions used with mental health patient groups.
The First UK Edition of this popular core text explores the full mental health nursing care continuum within a flexible, person-centred framework. It emphasises skilled engagement, collaborative assessment and care-planning, effective therapeutic communication and compassionate, evidence-based interventions. Its reader-friendly format and concise, focused chapters promote self-awareness, effective communication, collaboration and an emphasis on strengths and resources. Mental Health Nursing First UK Edition is essential reading for pre-registration students at diploma and degree level, on both adult and specialist mental health nursing courses, and as a resource for post-registration clinicians. Kevin Acott is Mental Health Tutor/Branch Leader (MH) in the University of Surrey's Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences.
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Fourth Edition. Based on the biopsychosocial model of psychiatric nursing, this text provides thorough coverage of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents, and older adults. Features include psychoeducation checklists, therapeutic dialogues, NCLEX® notes, vignettes of famous people with mental disorders, and illustrations showing the interrelationship of the biologic, psychologic, and social domains of mental health and illness. This edition reintroduces the important chapter on sleep disorders and includes a new chapter on forensic psychiatry. A bound-in CD-ROM and companion Website offer numerous student and instructor resources, including Clinical Simulations and questions about movies involving mental disorders.
This book is for therapists involved in exercise therapy for the prevention and treatment of disease. It covers exercise assessment, current prescription guidelines, precautions, exercise design and clinical case studies. The book also includes exercises to increase strength, power, local muscle endurance, range of movement and aerobic capacity and will be relevant to all areas of therapy practice. In addition to the general guidelines, considerations for exercise groups and exercise at home as well as exercise in special patient populations are addressed. This allows therapists who are expert in one area to become familiar with exercise prescription in another. The book underpins therapeutic exercise in general and also addresses specific considerations for particular clinical situations within current guidelines and practical considerations. - Underpinning exercise physiology - Physical principles of exercise design - Guidelines for exercise training - Clinical exercise prescription - Limitations to exercise in common conditions - Example case studies
Designed to help students learn how to create nursing care plans and effectively document care, this practical book focuses on the nursing plans that are most important, ensuring that students learn what they need to know and that they can find the information they need easily without being distracted by irrelevant information. Packed with easy-to-understand information and focused on helping students develop critical reasoning skills, this respected text presents the most likely nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems with step-by-step guidance on nursing actions and rationales for interventions. More than 85 nursing care plans translate theory into clinical practice. This exciting revision includes special risk consideration icons called “Clinical Alert” (derived from the most recent IOM report) that integrate patient-specific considerations into each care plan. Other enhancements include a streamlined format for easier use; new care plans for maternity, pediatric, and mental health nursing.
Publisher’s Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. LPN to RN Transitions, 5th Edition, eases the return to academic life and helps licensed practical and vocational nurses effectively balance career, school, and personal pursuits on the journey to success in registered nursing programs. Case studies and interactive exercises guide readers in building a Personal Education Plan optimized for their unique skills, learning needs, and goals, giving aspiring registered nurses everything they need to confidently prepare for the rigors of RN programs.