Main description:

Learn the therapeutic skills you need for your role in psychiatric nursing care! Psychiatric Nursing uses a practical, three-pronged approach to psychotherapeutic management that clearly explains how to care for patients with psychiatric disorders. It emphasizes the nurse's three primary tools: themselves, medications, and the environment. Written by Norman L. Keltner, Carol E. Bostrom, and Teena McGuinness, each an educator and advanced practice nurse, this text covers the latest trends and treatments and provides a solid, real-world foundation for the practice of safe and effective psychiatric nursing care.

Contents:

Unit I Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing

1. Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing
2. Psychotherapeutic Management in the Continuum of Care
3. Models for Working with Psychiatric Patients
4. Legal Issues
5. Psychobiologic Bases of Behavior

Unit II Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship

6. Nurse-Patient Communication
7. Nurse-Patient Relationship
8. Nursing Process
9. Stress, Anxiety, Coping, and Crisis
10. Suicide and Other Self Destructive Behaviors
11. Working with the Aggressive Patient
12. Working with Groups of Patients
13. Working with the Family
14. Cultural Competence in Psychiatric Nursing
15. Spirituality

Unit III Psychopharmacology

16. Introduction to Psychotropic Drugs
17. Antiparkinsonian Drugs
18. Antipsychotic Drugs
19. Antidepressant Drugs
20. Antimanic Drugs
21. Antianxiety Drugs
22. Antidementia Drugs

Unit IV Milieu Management

23. Introduction to Milieu Management
24. Variables Affecting the Therapeutic Environment
25. Therapeutic Environment in Various Treatment Settings
26. Forensic Psychiatric Treatment Settings NEW!

Unit V Psychopathology

27. Introduction to Psychopathology
28. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
29. Depression
30. Bipolar Disorders
31. Anxiety-Related, Somatoform, and Dissociative Disorders
32. Cognitive Disorders
33. Personality Disorders
34. Sexual Disorders
35. Substance-Related Disorders
36. Dual Diagnosis
37. Eating Disorders

Unit VI Special Populations and Therapies in Psychiatric Nursing

38. Behavior and Somatic Therapies
39. Nutraceuticals and Mental Health
40. Survivors of Violence and Trauma
41. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
42. Mental Disorders of Older Adults

    43. War Related Psychiatric Disorders