Confidently Identify and manage mental health problems in today's nursing practice. Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, Seventh Edition, simplifies your path to success in psychiatric mental health nursing, providing a comprehensive, recovery framework approach that emphasizes interventions and wellness promotion to ensure positive patient outcomes. This trusted, up-to-date text makes complex information easy to understand and incorporates a wealth of examples, case studies, clinical vignettes, and patient experience videos to help you grasp concepts and apply what you've learned in the clinical setting. UPDATED! Content familiarizes you with the latest issues, topics, and evidence-based research, including the treatment of mental health problems in veterans and military families. Case Studies threaded in the disorder chapters and linked to related Nursing Core Plans and Therapeutic Dialogues strengthen your clinical confidence by allowing you to practice applying concepts as they learn. Wellness Challenges threaded in disorder chapters highlight opportunities for health promotion. Integration with Primary Care threaded in disorder chapters emphasize important connections between psychiatric disorders and basic health needs. Key Diagnostic Characteristics succinctly summarize diagnostic criteria, target symptoms, and associated findings for select disorders adapted from the DSM-5 by the American Psychiatric Associations.
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