Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 4th Edition (FORTINASH) | Paperback

• Clinical Alert boxes address issues critical to the safety or well-being of the client.
• Client and Family Teaching Guidelines boxes discuss the issues confronting families when a member suffers from mental illness.
• Nursing Assessment Questions boxes include questions that should be asked in the assessment of a particular disorder.
• Case studies depict effective nursing care strategies and encourage critical thinking.
• Nursing Care Plans provide guidelines for care, with each plan including a brief case study, followed by assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, interventions with rationales, and evaluation.
• Clinical Symptoms boxes make it easy for students to apply content to the real world.
• DSM-IV-TR Criteria boxes list categories of mental disorders and the criteria for diagnosing them.
• Additional Treatment Modalities boxes summarize other modalities and interventions used in conjunction with nursing interventions in the treatment of a particular disorder.
• Objectives and key terms open each chapter, emphasizing the most important concepts.
• Chapter summaries conclude each chapter with the most significant ideas to remember.
• A glossary provides concise definitions of key terms.
• A Neurobiology in Mental Health and Disorder chapter covers basic neuroanatomy as well as the psychobiological aspects of psychiatric disorders.
• A Complementary and Alternative Therapies chapter introduces current therapies used in the treatment of physiological and psychological health problems and demonstrates the nurse's role in providing holistic nursing care.

• New Somatoform, Factitious, and Dissociative Disorders and Sleep Disorders chapters cover these increasingly diagnosed disorders and describe the nurse's role in treatment.
• Medication Key Facts boxes summarize the most common psychopharmacologic interventions and discuss safe and effective use.
• Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes discuss implications of current research studies.
• Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) labels are identified for each nursing diagnosis in all nursing care plans.
• Review questions for the NCLEX examination reinforce the content in each chapter.
• A NEW companion CD includes:
• Interactive Exercises with memory match, quiz show, and hangman activities to ensure comprehension.
• Neurology Review with state-of-the-art, narrated animations.
• 150 review questions to prepare students for the NCLEX examination.
• Audio Glossary of 150 terms with definitions and pronunciations.