| View Larger Image | Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (Varcarolis, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans) | Paperbackby Elizabeth M. Varcarolis RN MA (Author)
| List Price: | $37.95 | | Price: | $32.26 | | You Save: | $5.69 (15%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Saunders | | Edition: | 3rd Edition | | Page Count: | 816 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 28, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 24,014th |
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Product Description
This pocket-sized clinical companion is designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of psychiatric nursing care plans. It provides quick and easy access to the detailed and concrete information students need to know as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. The content is clinically based, rather than theory based. This avoids repetition of material that students already have in their mental health nursing textbooks and makes it a perfect reference for clinical use.The latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of clients with psychiatric disorders.A focus on clinical information in order to assist the nurse in providing patient care in the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting.Coverage of all major disorders commonly encountered in a clinical setting.Care plans with a nursing diagnosis etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales.A chapter on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching provides coverage of psychopharmacology in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter.The most recent information in the field, including the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy and 2005-2006 NANDA nursing diagnoses.Assessment tools collected in an appendix for quick reference. An appendix of drug monographs features the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications.Revised and expanded client outcome sections include additional outcome criteria, short-term goals, and long-term goals for each diagnosis.Additional content on forensic issues in psychiatric nursing is integrated throughout as applicable.Online drug cards, updated quarterly, provide users with the latest drug information and can be printed and carried along with the manual. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 7 reviews)
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Psych Care Plan Book by Heather Contreras  5 Stars
October 13, 2009
This book has been helpful in completing care plans for my psychosocial clinical rotation. As any nursing student knows, care plans are long papers that must be completed in order to receive a grade, since psych is newer to me than med-surg it is helpful to have a book to aid in the completion of these care plans.
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Very easy-to-read text book by Oz (Illinois) 5 Stars
February 11, 2009
I love this text. It's very user friendly. You get the need-to-know information in a style that's easy to read and understand. I actually look forward to reading my assigned chapters!
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NOT just careplans - tons of useful info for psych class & beyond by K. Salinger (Bay Area, California) 5 Stars
April 10, 2008
This was required for my psych rotation and initially I almost didn't buy it (many classes have extra texts that you don't really need - I thought this might be one...) However, our professor emphasized that the psych dx in regular nursing care plan books aren't right & don't have all that pertain specifically to psych/mental health and lack correct interventions.
As it turns out, I used this little book significantly more than I used the primary text for the class! It has info on the various psych drugs with indications & things to watch out for, info on appropriate communication styles when dealing with individuals displaying particular behaviours incl. therapeutic communication, descriptions of all the various defense mechanisms etc. It's really worth the $$$.
This is one text I will keep beyond nursing school for easy reference to all things psych.
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psyc nursing care plan book by J. Westgate (Boston, MA) 5 Stars
March 01, 2008
great book, helps with psyc care plans a lot. Great price, cheaper than college bookstore.
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NURSING STUDENTS by T. Levine (SC, Sumter) 5 Stars
January 31, 2008
This book was very helpful...If you have the Mental Health book by Elizabeth Varcarolis 5th edition then this book is good to have. It helps with careplans and it has a lot of the psychiatric meds plus interventions. Example with Lithium; for Bipolar-you want to check serum lithium levels weekly/biweekly during therapy. It gives you interventions and nursing considerations for the drugs. So it does have a lot of information in it. Its small but it is a great book to have for Mental Health.
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