Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology
A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 4th Edition helps you assess psychiatric nursing clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, and design psychiatric nursing care plans. It offers quick and easy access to information on care in a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA, provides a clinically based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing...
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A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 4th Edition helps you assess psychiatric nursing clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, and design psychiatric nursing care plans. It offers quick and easy access to information on care in a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA, 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.• Current coverage includes the latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of patients with psychiatric disorders. • Clinically based information helps you provide patient care in a range of environments including the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. • Coverage of all major disorders includes those commonly encountered in a clinical setting. • A consistent format for each care plan includes a nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales. • Assessment tools such as tables, charts, and questionnaires are provided in an appendix for quick reference. • A Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching chapter describes the uses and workings of psychotropic agents.• The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy 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.
Part I: Guidelines for Planning Psychiatric Nursing Care1. The Nursing Process and Assessment Tools for Psychiatric Nursing2. Maximizing Communication Skills3. Guidelines for the Nurse Conducting a Clinical InterviewPart II: Diagnosis and Care Planning4. Selected Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence5. Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders6. Depressive Disorders7. Bipolar Disorders8. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders9. Personality Disorders10. Addictions11. Eating Disorders12. Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and DementiaPart III: Psychiatric Emergencies and Forensic Issues13. Crisis Intervention and Rehabilitation14. Family Violence15. Sexual Assault16. Suicide Behaviors17. Anger and Aggression18. Grieving and Complicated GrievingPart IV: Challenging Behaviors19. Manipulative Behaviors20. Noncompliance (Nonadherence) to Medication or TreatmentPart V: Psychopharmacology21. Major Psychotropic Interventions and Patient and Family TeachingAppendix A ReferencesAppendix B Classification and Full AssessmentAppendix C Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents Appendix D Assessment GuidesAppendix E Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)Appendix F Nursing Care in Electroconvulsive Therapy
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