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Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing: A Pocket Guide for Care Plan Construction | Spiral-bound

by Mary C. Townsend (Author)

List Price: $21.95  

Binding:  Spiral-bound
Publisher:  F a Davis Co
Edition:  3rdrd Edition
Page Count:  454 Pages
Publication Date:  March 01, 1994
Sales Rank:  1,450,275st


EDITORIAL REVIEWS


Product Description
This guide covers the predisposing factors, symptomatology, possible nursing etiologies, defining characteristics, goals, interventions, and discharge criteria for the more common diagnoses within the framework of the most common psychiatric disorders. With a focus on care in the acute care setting, suggestions for use in outpatient and community settings are offered. Includes recent NANDA diagnoses, new chapters on Impulse Control Disorders and Sexual Disorders, and more.


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)

School by hbburr (Rayne, Louisiana USA) 5 Stars
September 02, 2009
I have found this pocket guide useful. I am an LPN student and I use it.

Excellent content and extremely helpful. 5 Stars
January 24, 1999
Includes exceptional long and short term goals, predisposing factors, etiologies, common diagnoses, interventions with rationales, defining characterists, and outcome criteria for accurate and inciteful care planning.

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