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Synopsis
This invaluable pocket guide equips readers with clinical tools to help conceptualize, plan, and document nursing care actions - based on the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of health and wellness from Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing. Brief paragraphs and bulleted lists point out general psychiatric care planning concepts, followed by specific psychiatric nursing care considerations with dozens of treatment plan summaries and other assessment tools. It offers the latest information on all topics, including psychotropic medications, somatic treatments, and alternative therapies.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-100323035027
ISBN-139780323035026
eBay Product ID (ePID)44412932

Key Details
AuthorGail Wiscarz Stuart
Number Of Pages480 pages
Edition DescriptionRevised
SeriesNursing Pocket Guides
FormatPaperback
Publication Date2005-03-15
LanguageEnglish
PublisherElsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication Year2005

Additional Details
Edition Number6
Copyright Date2005

Dimensions
Width4.4 In.
Length7.4 In.

Target Audience
GroupScholarly & Professional

Classification Method
Dewey Decimal616.890231
Dewey Edition22

Table Of Content
Unit One Foundations of Practice 1. Psychiatric Nursing Practice 2. Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship 3. Biopsychosocial Assessment 4. Nursing and Medical Diagnoses 5. Prevention and Mental Health Promotion 6. Crisis Intervention 7. Rehabilitation and Recovery 8. Legal-Ethical Issues 9. Implementing Clinical Practice Standards Unit Two Clinical Care 10. Anxiety Responses and Anxiety Disorders 11. Psychophysiological Responses and Somatoform and Sleep Disorders 12. Self-Concept Responses and Dissociative Disorders 13. Emotional Responses and Mood Disorders 14. Self-Protective Responses and Suicidal Behavior 15. Neurobiological Responses and Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders 16. Social Responses and Personality Disorders 17. Cognitive Responses and Organic Mental Disorders 18. Chemically Mediated Responses and Substance-Related Disorders 19. Eating Regulation Responses and Eating Disorders 20. Sexual Responses and Sexual Disorders 21. Psychopharmacology 22. Somatic and Alternative Therapies