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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.

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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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