Schaum's outline of psychiatric nursing

Psychiatric nursing is a rigorous course for nursing majors, who must learn to assess and care for psychiatric patients to be successful in their future career. Schaum’s Outline of Psychiatric Nursing mirrors the course in scope and sequence to help enrolled students understand basic concepts and offer extra practice on such topics as biological basis for understanding psychotropic drugs, legal and ethical guidelines for safe practice, understanding anxiety and anxiety defences, somatoform and dissociative disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, suicide, psychological needs of the medically ill, psychosocial needs of the older adult, therapeutic groups, etc. Coverage will alsoinclude culturally relevant mental health nursing, understanding stress and holistic approaches to stress, personality disorders, mood disorders and care of the chemically impaired. INDICE: 1. Introduction to Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing 2. Conceptual Frameworks and Nursing Theorists in Psychiatric Nursing 3. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Psychiatric Nursing 4. Children and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders 5. Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders 6. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders 7. Personality Disorders 8. Eating Disorders 9. Mood Disorders: Bipolar and Depression 10. The Schizophrenias and Other Psychotic Disorders 11. Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia 12. Substance Related Disorders 13. Psychiatric Emergencies 14. Treatment Modalities Market / Audience Undergraduate Students majoring in nursing who are enrolled in the psychiatric nursing course and Graduate Students and Professionals looking for a tool for review

• ISBN: 978-0-07-162364-3
• Editorial: McGraw-Hill
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés