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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing 8th Edition



Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing 8th Edition PDF

Author: Sheila L. Videbeck PhD RN

Publisher: LWW

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Publish Date: October 30, 2019

ISBN-10: 1975116372

Pages: 552

File Type: PDF

Language: English

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Book Preface

The eighth edition of Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing maintains a strong student focus, presenting sound nursing theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical applications across the treatment continuum. The chapters are short, and the writing style is direct in order to facilitate reading comprehension and student learning.

This text uses the nursing process framework and emphasizes therapeutic communication with examples and pharmacology throughout. Interventions focus on all aspects of client care, including communication, client and family education, and community resources, as well as their practical applications in various clinical settings.

In this edition, all content has been updated, as well as the “Best Practice” boxes, to highlight current evidence-based practice. Special features include “Concept Mastery Alerts,” which clarify important concepts that are essential to students’ learning. “Cultural Considerations” and “Elder Considerations” have special headings to help call attention to this important content. The nursing process sections have a new design to help highlight this content as well. New to this edition are unfolding vignettes that guide students in thinking critically by applying what they’ve learned to different client scenarios.

Organization of the Text

Unit 1: Current Theories and Practice provides a strong foundation for students. It addresses current issues in psychiatric nursing as well as the many treatment settings in which nurses encounter clients. It thoroughly discussesneurobiologic theories, psychopharmacology, and psychosocial theories and therapy as a basis for understanding mental illness and its treatment.

Unit 2: Building the Nurse–Client Relationship presents the basic elements essential to the practice of mental health nursing. Chapters on therapeutic relationships and therapeutic communication prepare students to begin working with clients both in mental health settings and in all other areas of nursing practice. The chapter on the client’s response to illness provides a framework for understanding the individual client. An entire chapter is devoted to assessment, emphasizing its importance in nursing.

Unit 3: Current Social and Emotional Concerns covers topics that are not exclusive to mental health settings. These include legal and ethical issues; anger, aggression, and hostility; abuse and violence; and grief and loss. Nurses in all practice settings find themselves confronted with issues related to these topics. Additionally, many legal and ethical concerns are interwoven with issues of violence and loss.

Unit 4: Nursing Practice for Psychiatric Disorders covers all the major categories of mental disorders. This unit has been reorganized to reflect current concepts in mental disorders. New chapters include trauma and stressor-related disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder and related disorders, somatic symptom disorders, disruptive disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Each chapter provides current information on etiology, onset and clinical course, treatment, and nursing care. The chapters are compatible for use with any medical classification system for mental disorders.

Pedagogical Features

Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing incorporates several pedagogical features designed to facilitate student learning:
• Learning Objectives focus on the students’ reading and study.
• Key Terms identify new terms used in the chapter. Each term is identified in bold and defined in the text.
• Application of the Nursing Process sections, with a special design in this edition, highlight the assessment framework to help students compare and contrast various disorders more easily.
• Critical Thinking Questions stimulate students’ thinking about current dilemmas and issues in mental health.
• Key Points summarize chapter content to reinforce important concepts.
• Chapter Study Guides provide workbook-style questions for students to test their knowledge and understanding of each chapter.

Special Features

• Clinical Vignettes, provided for each major disorder discussed in the text, “paint a picture” of a client dealing with the disorder to enhance
understanding.
• Nursing Care Plans demonstrate a sample plan of care for a client with a specific disorder.
• Drug Alerts highlight essential points about psychotropic drugs.
• Warning boxes are the FDA black box drug warnings for specific medications.
• Cultural Considerations sections highlight diversity in client care.
• Elder Considerations sections highlight the key considerations for a growing older adult population.
• Therapeutic dialogues give specific examples of the nurse–client interaction to promote therapeutic communication skills.
• Client and Family Education boxes provide information that helps strengthen students’ roles as educators.
• Nursing Interventions provide a summary of key interventions for the specific disorder.
• DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria boxes include specific diagnostic information for the disorder.
• Best Practices boxes highlight current evidence-based practice and future directions for research on a wide variety of practice issues.
• Self-Awareness Issues encourage students to reflect on themselves, their emotions, and their attitudes as a way to foster both personal and professional development.
• Concept Mastery Alerts clarify important concepts that are essential to students’ learning and practice.
• Unfolding Patient Stories, written by the National League for Nursing, are an engaging way to begin meaningful conversations in the classroom. These vignettes, which appear throughout the book, feature patients from Wolters Kluwer’s | Mental Health.


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