Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing : a communication approach to evidence-based care /

Varcarolis, Elizabeth M.

Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing : a communication approach to evidence-based care / Elizabeth M. Varcarolis. - 2nd ed., revised reprint. - Missouri : Elsevier / Saunders, c.2013. - xxv, 606 p. : ill. (col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes appendixes. Index : p. 585-606.

Includes bibliographical references.

Practicing the science and the art of psychiatric nursing -- Mental health and mental illness -- Theories and therapies / Margaret Jordan Halter -- Biological basis for understanding psychopharmacology / Dorothy A. Varchol -- Settings for psychiatric care / Margaret Jordan Halter -- Legal and ethical basis for practice / Penny Simpson Brooke -- Nursing process and QSEN: the foundation for safe and effective care -- Communication skills: medium for all nursing practice -- Therapeutic relationships and the clinical interview -- Stress and stress-related disorders -- Anxiety, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders -- Somatic symptom disorders and related disorders -- Personality disorders -- Eating disorders / Kathleen Ibrahim -- Mood disorders: depression -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance-related and addictive disorders -- Crisis and mass disaster -- Child, partner, and elder violence -- Sexual violence -- Suicidal thoughts and behaviors -- Anger, aggression, and violence -- Care for the dying and those who grieve / Kathy Kramer-Howe -- Children and adolescents -- Adults / Edward A Herzog -- Older adults.

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Psychiatric nursing
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