| View Larger Image | Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice | Paperbackby Mary C. Townsend (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | F. A. Davis Company | | Edition: | 4thth Edition | | Page Count: | 727 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 15, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 80,214th |
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Product Description
The 4th Edition of this popular text clearly and concisely presents the fundamentals of psychiatric nursing in a user friendly design and reader-friendly writing style that reflects the voice of a single author.Continued emphasis on holistic nursing and mind/body connection includes both physical and psychosocial nursing diagnoses for physiological disorders (e.g., asthma, migraine headache, hypertension) and for psychological disorders (such as somatoform and eating disorders).It includes a brand-new chapter - Cultural and Spiritual Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. It provides discussions of concept mapping and concept map care plans for all major psychiatric disorders. It provides up-to-date coverage of the latest psychotropic drugs. It features "Core Concept" boxes in all chapters.It provides updated NANDA terminology. It includes in-depth content on the bereaved individual, dementia, disaster nursing, and suicide, as well as psychosocial therapies. It provides comprehensive, information on psychotropic medications. It provides twenty-one sample "Client Teaching Guides" for psychotropic medications and psychiatric illnesses which then can be reproduced for use in patient education. It provides "Implications of Research for Evidence-Based Practice" for specific nursing interventions. It includes "Test Your Critical Thinking Skills" boxes with case studies and exercises. It includes appendices with DSM-IV-TR classifications, NANDA diagnoses and behaviors, critical pathways, and guidelines for mental health assessment, as well as a complete glossary. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 13 reviews)
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Nursing by Belinda  5 Stars
November 30, 2009
This nursing textbook is one of the best psychaitric textbook that I have read! if any nursing student is told to buy this textbook I do recommend it be bought. The chapters in the book are easy to read, the nursing diagnosis are very straight forward and easy to understatnd. I found it really helpful.
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Good service by C. Stebleton 5 Stars
September 11, 2009
I have no complaints. I recieved the book in a very timely way. It was exactly the condition that was described.
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Great book by Nhan Nguyen (Tampa FL USA) 5 Stars
April 05, 2009
I ordered it for my three week course of psych class. I was going to return it afterward. However I decide to keep it for future ref.
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Satisfied by R. Jenson 5 Stars
February 09, 2009
I was very happy that the book came before promised and that the book was in the description that was promised.
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wonderful by nursing student (jersey) 5 Stars
February 08, 2009
the book came like it said-like new and unopened cd rom. i saved $20 buying it 'used' instead of brand new. its the same! book came in quickly as well.
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