Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing - 9780803625068

This 4.5x8" reference can be used as a guide in constructing care plans for various psychiatric clients. Unit 1 covers foundations for planning psychiatric nursing care, and unit 2 describes specific disorders. Each of the disorder chapters contains information on predisposing factors, symptoms, behavioral goals for the patient, interventions and selected rationales, and outcome criteria. Unit 3 concerns special topics in psychiatric/mental health nursing, such as complementary therapies, HIV disease, homelessness, and problems related to abuse or neglect. Unit 4 offers chapters on seven different categories of psychotropic medications. Appendices provide assessment tools and scales and offer background on development theories, ego defense mechanisms, levels of anxiety, stages of grief, and psychosocial therapies. The book includes indexes of nursing diagnoses and DSM-IV-TR psychiatric diagnoses. Townsend, a nurse consultant, formerly taught at Oklahoma City University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)