Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing by Louise Rebraca Shives

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This updated Seventh Edition will equip psychiatric and mental health nurses with the essential clinical knowledge and skills needed to practice with confidence. Spanning the continuum of care, this text will help nurses excel in a range of settings, improve client and family education skills, and build the self-awareness a nurse needs as a member of the interdisciplinary care team. The book has a dynamic full-color design and a wealth of engaging new learning features. This edition includes a new chapter on forensic nursing, new content on spirituality, updated psychopharmacological information, current DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, and Evidence-Based Practice Boxes throughout the text. A bound-in CD-ROM includes clinical simulations for major depression and schizophrenia, psychotropic drug monographs, over 300 NCLEX(R)-style questions, and movie viewing guides.

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Reviewer:Leona F. Dempsey, PhD;APNP;CNSPMH-BC (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description:Last revised in 2005, this textbook presents current concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Purpose:The goal of this newest edition is to retain the threads of the previous edition while adding or expanding areas that address current concepts used in psychiatric-mental health nursing. Several nursing journals were reviewed to obtain relevant information and comments by reviewers were taken into consideration as well.
Audience:The book is intended for student nurses who are challenged to apply basic concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing in diverse settings. It is also useful for practicing nurses and other mental health professionals. The editor is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and clinical specialist, a consultant in long-term care as well as a legal nurse consultant, and a codirector of a C.A.R.E. Team Ministry of a church.
Features:Added material throughout the 35 chapters covers the basic and newest concepts needed for the understanding and practice of psychiatric-mental health nursing. The book also features 34 new and expanded features. Most of the pedagogic features are similar to other books, but this book includes boxes in chapters that address supporting evidence for practice which are very useful for evidence-based practice. I particularly appreciate the chapter on the development of psychiatric-mental health nursing theory.
Assessment:New to this edition is information on forensic nursing practice, the use of a legal document, evidence-based nursing practice,therapeutic interaction with clients who exhibit varying behavior, disaster intervention, recent advances in somatic therapies, Internet addiction, and the history of delusional and shared psychotic disorders. The new and expanded features justify replacing the previous edition.

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