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This practical reference tool provides easy access to a range of information on the roles, therapies, practice and procedures for clinical practice, clinical specialty programmes and psychiatric nursing education. Topics covered include: crisis intervention and relaxation; counselling approaches for specific DSM IV diagnoses - such as the client with dual diagnosis and the client who has been battered; programme design - for example, designing a mental health home care programme and designing an independent practice association; and psychopharmacology.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Sixth Edition helps nursing students and practicing nurses prepare care plans accurately and efficiently for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis. The book features a life-cycle format, with sections on adult, adolescent, child, maternal-neonatal, and geriatric health. Sections on community-based health (care plans on home health, health promotion, and more) and psychiatric/mental health round out the volume. Each care plan includes clear-cut criteria for identifying the right nursing diagnosis, assessment guidelines, outcome statements, rationales with all interventions, and documentation guidelines.
Review for the NCLEX-RN. For nursing graduates. Includes multiple-choice questions with rationales for correct and incorrect answers, a pretest and posttest, and a sample exam. The 3.5 inch disk has the electronic version of the sample exam from the book.
This contemporary primary care text provides comprehensive coverage of the conditions most frequently seen in primary care. In this single source readers can find holistic coverage including: diagnostic criteria; epidemiology, including cultural and socioeconomic factors; prevention, risk identification and screening; indicated lab studies and how to order, interpret, and react to abnormal findings; physical exam; treatment options, including risks and benefits and alternative/complementary approaches; flow charts for management outcomes evaluation; follow up care; teaching and self care; community health services and resources; and clinical pearls.
Contributors. -- Foreword. -- Preface. -- Getting Started. -- Assessing Available Information. -- Organizing and Preliminary Planning for Surgical Research -- Writing a Protocol: Animals, Humans, and Use of Biologic, Chemical, and Radiologic Agents. -- Grantsmanship. -- Informed Consent and the Protection of Human Research Subjects: Historical Perspectives and Guide to Current United States Regulations. -- Animal Care and Maintenance. -- Funding Strategies and Agencies: Academic-Industrial Relationships; Intellectual Property. -- Statistical Considerations. -- Use of Nonexperimental Studies to Evaluate Surgical Procedures and Other Interventions: The Challenge of Risk Adjustment. -- Measuring Surgical Outcomes. -- Design of Clinical Trials. -- Using Administrative Data for Clinical Research. -- Research in the Intensive Care Unit: Ethical and Methodological Issues. -- Research in the Operating Room. -- Effects of Age and Gender. -- Strategies, Principles, and Techniques Using Transgeni ...
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With this newly revised edition, you'll prepare clinically accurate care plans in half the time - every time. Get complete updates on adult, adolescent, child, maternal-neonatal, geriatric, psychiatric and community-based health.
Addresses the special resources, collection development needs, policies, and user services of libraries in mental health settings.