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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

Awarded third place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Category. Get a full understanding of today’s psychiatric nursing practice in less time! Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 3rd Edition offers the perfect balance of essential nursing interventions and clinical content paired with current research and evidence-based practice to fully equip you for today’s field of mental health nursing. This new edition continues to retain the reader-friendly style, emphasis on therapeutic communication, and the nursing process organization that was successful in the previous edition. It also includes additional DSM-5 disorders, illustrations of various neurobiology disorders, a new neurobiology learning tool, and new NCLEX review questions to help you pass your course and thoroughly prepare for the psychiatric nursing section of the NCLEX. REVISED! Examining the Evidence boxes explain the reasoning behind nursing interventions and how research affects everyday practice. UNIQUE! Applying the Art sections in the clinical chapters provide examples of therapeutic and nontherapeutic communication techniques as well as realistic nurse-patient interaction scenarios. Chapter review questions reinforce essential content from the chapter. Critical thinking questions introduce clinical situations in psychiatric nursing. Nursing Interventions tables familiarize readers with interventions for a disorder that they will encounter in clinical practice. Key concepts and terms clarify essential terminology. Vignettes offer succinct, real-life glimpses into clinical practice by describing patients and their psychiatric disorders. Assessment Guidelines familiarize readers with methods of assessing patients. Potential Nursing Diagnosis tables give several possible nursing diagnoses for a particular disorder along with the associated signs and symptoms. DSM-5 diagnostic criteria identifies medical diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders for integration into the nursing plan of care. Important contributions from psychiatric mental health nursing pioneers are featured in the opening unit pages. Cultural Considerations sections reinforce the principles of culturally competent care. Key Points to Remember outline the main concepts of each chapter in an easy to comprehend and concise bulleted list. Appendices feature the DSM-5 Classifications and a list of the latest NANDA-I diagnoses for readers’ reference.

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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Revised Reprint - E-Book

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Revised Reprint - E-Book

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

- NEW! Chapter on stress identifies symptoms and triggers of stressors. - NEW! Selected Concept boxes include pertinent information at the beginning of every chapter. - NEW! Cultural Considerations sections reinforce the principles of culturally competent care. - NEW! Additional discussions of QSEN are incorporated in the Nursing Process and QSEN chapter. - NEW! Opening unit pages include photos and information about the most important contributions of psychiatric mental health nursing pioneers. - NEW! Updated Table of Contents improves content flow and eliminates redundancy.

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0323294154

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Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning

Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

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Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning

Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 4th Edition helps you assess psychiatric nursing clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, and design psychiatric nursing care plans. It offers quick and easy access to information on care in a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA, provides a clinically based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use. Current coverage includes the latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of patients with psychiatric disorders. Clinically based information helps you provide patient care in a range of environments including the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. Coverage of all major disorders includes those commonly encountered in a clinical setting. A consistent format for each care plan includes a nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales. Assessment tools such as tables, charts, and questionnaires are provided in an appendix for quick reference. A Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching chapter describes the uses and workings of psychotropic agents. The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy with diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. Current psychiatric nursing guidelines are based on ANA's 2007 Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Updated 2009-2011 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses assist with accurate diagnoses by including the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing. Updated drug information includes the latest on medications used with psychiatric patients, for optimal drug therapy.

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Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning - E-Book

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

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Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning - E-Book

By: Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 5th Edition supplies you with the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5, for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. It offers quick and easy access to plans of care for a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth Varcarolis, provides a clinically-based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use. The latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you up-to-date with the most current information. Care plans containing nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long- and short-term goals, and interventions and rationales offer plans of care for a wide range of psychiatric nursing diagnoses. A focus on clinical information furnishes you with information on providing patient care in a range of settings. Assessment Guides, including tables, charts, and questionnaires facilitate patient diagnosis and care. A chapter on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Patient and Family Teaching, in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter, helps you better understand the uses and workings of the psychotropic agents. Coverage of major disorders exposes you to a wide range of disorders within psychiatric nursing. The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-5 taxonomy (due to publish May 2013) with diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. Current psychiatric nursing guidelines are based on ANA's 2007 Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Updated 2009-2011 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses assist with accurate diagnoses by including the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing. Updated drug information includes the latest on medications used with psychiatric patients, for optimal drug therapy.

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Virtual Clinical Excursions 3. 0 for Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

By: Susan Fertig McDonald,Elizabeth M. Varcarolis,Margaret Jordan Halter

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Virtual Clinical Excursions 3. 0 for Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

By: Susan Fertig McDonald,Elizabeth M. Varcarolis,Margaret Jordan Halter

Completely updated for easier use and more control, VCE Pacific View is a groundbreaking workbook/CD-ROM package that brings learning to life in a "virtual" hospital setting. This guided learning experience features textbook reading assignments that correspond with the CD-ROM and workbook activities. The workbook acts as a map, guiding students through the CD-ROM as they care for patients in the virtual hospital to help students make connections between what they experience through the CD-ROM and what they've learned in their textbook. Each virtual hospital visit allows the student to access realistic information resources essential to patient care resulting in a true-to-life, hands-on learning experience. Users will also discover that this edition of VCE is easier to use with the inclusion of flash-based technology and the elimination of previously needed third-party plug-ins. Meaningful, real-world problems place users in nursing scenarios where they can set priorities for care, collect data, analyze and interpret data, and reach conclusions about complex problems within a health-illness transition The highly-engaging format encourages active learning and provides opportunities to identify information to collect and process data for evidence-based patient care; work with data entry and retrieval screens; optimize use of available information resources; understand hospital information systems; manage information for decision-making; and maintain and improve core computing skills Lessons in the workbook complement the content in the textbook and guide the student through the virtual hospital Includes NCLEX examination-style questions that offer built-in testing of clinical knowledge The CD-ROM offers users the opportunity to visit each patient and access realistic information essential for patient care, including: charts, medical administration records, electronic patient records, video clips of nurse-client interactions, and other related materials A clock icon appears under each lesson, estimating how much time it will take to complete A linkage icon alerts the user whenever they are about to begin an exercise that connects with previous lessons The elimination of third-party plug-ins facilitates fast and easy software installation Flash-based technology allows for more ease of use and seamless navigation Greater faculty support with the addition of the FAC PAC, a new instructors' website, and a radically expanded testing component A medication administration feature enables users to select, prepare, and administer medications Over 50 common medication errors imbedded within the software to boost clinical realism and prepare students for current practice A Medication Room that contains a wide variety of drug storage areas, such as a Unit Dosage Cabinet, Automated Dispensing System, IV Storage, and a Refrigerator 6 unique patients/cases, each with complex medical-surgical conditions for students to care for and monitor within the virtual hospital

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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - E-Book

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Revised Reprint - E-Book

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Revised Reprint - E-Book

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning - E-Book

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning - E-Book

Virtual Clinical Excursions 3. 0 for Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Virtual Clinical Excursions 3. 0 for Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

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