Handbook of Psychiatric Nursing
By- Gail Stuart, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
This invaluable pocket guide equips readers with clinical tools to help conceptualize, plan, and document nursing care actions - based on the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of health and wellness from Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing. Brief paragraphs and bulleted lists point out general psychiatric care planning concepts, followed by specific psychiatric nursing care considerations with dozens of treatment plan summaries and other assessment tools. It offers the latest information on all topics, including psychotropic medications, somatic treatments, and alternative therapies.
Paperback, 480 Pages
Published: March 2005
Imprint: Mosby
ISBN: 978-0-323-03502-6
Contents
- Unit One Foundations of Practice
1. Psychiatric Nursing Practice
2. Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship
3. Biopsychosocial Assessment
4. Nursing and Medical Diagnoses
5. Prevention and Mental Health Promotion
6. Crisis Intervention
7. Rehabilitation and Recovery
8. Legal-Ethical Issues
9. Implementing Clinical Practice Standards
Unit Two Clinical Care
10. Anxiety Responses and Anxiety Disorders
11. Psychophysiological Responses and Somatoform and Sleep Disorders
12. Self-Concept Responses and Dissociative Disorders
13. Emotional Responses and Mood Disorders
14. Self-Protective Responses and Suicidal Behavior
15. Neurobiological Responses and Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders
16. Social Responses and Personality Disorders
17. Cognitive Responses and Organic Mental Disorders
18. Chemically Mediated Responses and Substance-Related Disorders
19. Eating Regulation Responses and Eating Disorders
20. Sexual Responses and Sexual Disorders
21. Psychopharmacology
22. Somatic and Alternative Therapies
