By Karyn I. Morgan RN MSN APRN-CNS, Mary C. Townsend DSN PMHCNS-BC-Retired

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• Taxonomy and diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 with references for each DSM-5 diagnosis

• Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) activities with guidelines for attaining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to fulfill the initiative’s core competencies

• Therapeutic communication icon that highlights talking points and interventions in the care plans to help students feel more comfortable with patients

• Homework assignments at the beginning of each chapter to encourage critical reading

• Emphasis on holistic nursing to emphasize the physical, spiritual, and cultural aspects of psychiatric/mental health nursing

• Core concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter and defined in boxes throughout the text.

• Concept map care plans for all major psychiatric diagnoses

• Care Plans for clients with DSM-5 diagnoses featuring interventions and rationales for commonly observed nursing diagnoses

• ANA standards for clinical practice for DSM diagnoses and therapeutic interventions, as well as for aging individuals, bereaved individuals, and victims of abuse and neglect

• Boxes highlighting client/family education communications and tables listing important topics for discussion including client/family education

• Case studies and exercises designed to stimulate critical thinking

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ F.A. Davis Company; 8th edition (October 16, 2019)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Digital eBook ‏ : ‎ 888 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803676786
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803676787
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780803676787
• eText ISBN: 9780803699175