Pocket Guide to Psychiatric Nursing: Translating Evidence to Practice

Pocket Guide to Psychiatric Nursing: Translating Evidence to Practice

<ul><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers.</li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Concept Mapping and the use of Concept Care Map Plans introduced in Chapter 1. </li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Organized by DSM-5 and NANDA diagnoses.</li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Nursing diagnoses and interventions include the definition, possible etiologies ("Related to ..."), defining characteristics ("Evidenced by ..."), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria.</li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Each psychiatric disorder lists background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions commonly associated with the disorder. </li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Unit on psychotropic drug classifications covers anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. </li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications.</li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Communication interventions in the care plans reinforce the emphasis on therapeutic communication.</li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Clinical Pearl boxes highlight must-know information and interventions for diagnoses.</li><br /> <li style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Helpful rating scales appear in the appendices, including the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale, and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.</li><br /></ul>