Lippincott’s Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (Manual Psychiatric Nursing Car)
This supplemental resource contains 52 nursing care plans that address the most commonly encountered behaviors in psychiatric-mental health nursing. This edition maintains a strong focus on interdisciplinary care, community resources, Web-based resources, communication examples, and assessment. New features include: expanded content on evidence-based outcomes, increased coverage of grieving, expanded psychopharmacology content, more appendices with ANA standards of care, support groups, and screening tools. The accompanying CD-ROM contains printable nursing care plans and psychotropic drug monographs.
Customer Review: Informative and practical resource
This is a text with a winning combination of psychiatric nursing fundamentals, supported by 54 psychiatric care plans that help you address the most commonly encountered behaviors and complexes in mental health nursing. It comes with a handy CD for cut and paste, DSM-IV-TR standard terminology and NANDA nursing diagnoses help you pinpoint a range of disorders using the latest diagnostic criteria.
This text I believe is designed to enhance the effectiveness and improve the communication with both your clients and members of the care team. The book addresses the basic concepts, issues, and interventions that form the foundation for psychiatric practice.
