F.A. Davis Company

Whether it’s an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that’s concise, engaging, and informative. It offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing—in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. It’s the psychiatric nursing text that students actually read, understand, and use.

Completely revised and updated throughout, the 5th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge in the field and the practice of mental health nursing today, including the new, core competences outlined in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.

• The unique continuity and clarity of the voice of a single author.
• Emphasis on holistic nursing to emphasize the physical, spiritual, and cultural aspects of psychiatric/mental health nursing.
• Core concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter and defined in boxes throughout the text.
• Concept map care plans for all major psychiatric diagnoses.
• Taxonomy and diagnostic criteria from the DSM-V-TR as well as internet references for each DSM-IV-TR diagnosis.
• ANA standards for clinical practice for DSM diagnoses and therapeutic interventions, as well as for aging individuals, bereaved individuals, and victims of abuse and neglect.
• Boxes highlighting client/family education communications and tables listing important topics for discussion.
• Care Plans for clients with DSM-V-TR diagnoses featuring interventions and rationales for commonly observed nursing diagnoses.
• Case studies and exercises designed to stimulate critical thinking.
• Tables with topics for client/family education.

• UPDATED! BONUS CD-ROM in every book.
• Electronic Test bank with 300 all-new, NCLEX-style questions, including alternate-item-format questions.
• Electronic Workbook in PDF format
• Printable psychotropic drug monographs to carry to clinical
• Printable sample client education teaching guides to use as client/family handouts
• Assessment tools for levels of anxiety, medication, and culture
• Global assessment functioning (GAF) scale
• Mental status assessment tool
• Assigning nursing diagnoses to client behaviors
• Stages of grief
• Ego defense mechanisms
• Answers to learning activities
• Glossary
• REVISED & UPDATED! All content thoroughly revised and updatedto reflect the education and practice of nursing today. NEW! Sample Case Studies and Care Plans at the end of each diagnosis chapter.
• NEW! QSEN Teaching Strategies, guidelines for attaining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to fulfill the initiative’s quality and safety competencies.
• NEW! Emphasis on therapeutic communication, including communication strategies within the interventions in the care plans, identified with a special icon.
• NEW! A “Pre-Lecture” assignment at the beginning of each chapter to encourage students to read the chapter before coming to class.
• UPDATED & EXPANDED! Psychopharmacology overview in the chapter on biological implications.
• REVISED & UPDATED! Psychopharmacology content related to specific medications in the appropriate diagnosis chapter.
• UPDATED! New 2009-2011 content in the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses:  Taxonomy II.
• UPDATED! Review questions at the end of each chapter now in NCLEX format.
• EXPANDED! Psychosocial assessment in the mental status assessment.
• UPDATED! Tables for Assigning Nursing Diagnoses to Behaviors Commonly Associated with (specific diagnosis) in the diagnoses chapters.
• REVISED! The chapter, Mood Disorders, divided into two separate chapters, Mood Disorders: Depression and Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorders.
• Updated! Classical, contemporary and internet references.
• Updated! Implications of Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes.
• NEW! Content summaries and key points at the end of each chapter.