Pocket Guide to Psychiatric Nursing

This handy Pocket Guide is a practical clinical reference for both psychiatric nurses and nursing students. Organized according to the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of health and wellness, the guide provides an arsenal of clinical tools to help you carefully conceptualize, plan, and document nursing care actions. Initial chapters offer a refresher of basic psychiatric care planning concepts useful for any patient, in any treatment setting. The remainder of the book provides a troubleshooting guide to specific psychiatric nursing care problems with dozens of treatment plan summaries and various other tools for the biological and sociological assessment of patients. The new edition includes the latest ANA psychiatric nursing standards for nursing care; NANDA and DSM-IV-TR diagnoses to provide nursing and medical perspectives of care; new summary tables of evidence-based treatments and evidence-based algorithms; and the new information on psychotropic medications, somatic treatments, and alternative therapies.