Psychiatric in The Books Store

• User-friendly writing style and a full-color design make psychiatric nursing content come alive! Case studies and personal stories show a compassion and understanding unique among psychiatric nursing texts. Special features are easily located and identified.
• Nursing process framework provides a strong underpinning for all clinical chapters. A sixth step, Outcome Criteria, identifies specific patient outcomes, then justifies the subsequent nursing interventions based on results.
• Assessment Guidelines boxes provide summary points for client assessment.
• Spiritual assessment is found in Assessment Strategies and the Nursing Process and Care for the Dying and for Those Who Grieve.
• Biologic Basis for Understanding Psychotropic Drugs lays the foundation for the study of psychotropic drug therapy to treat psychobiologic disorders.
• Care for the Dying and for Those Who Grieve chapter provides holistic nursing interventions related to end-of-life care for clients and families.
• Case Studies and Nursing Care Plans present individualized histories of clients with specific psychiatric disorders, and include interventions with rationales and evaluation statements for each client goal.
• Vignettes offer brief, descriptive characterizations of clients with specific psychiatric disorders.
• A Nurse Speaks spotlights individual psychiatric nurses and their personal stories.
• Key Terms and Concepts with page number references allow for quick review.
• Critical Thinking and Chapter Review sections offer scenario-based critical thinking problems and NCLEX-style multiple-choice questions, allowing students to test themselves on the chapter content.
• Nurse, Client, and Family Resources lists are provided on the book's Evolve website.

• A dynamic author team offers a breadth of experience in nursing education and practice.
• Tear-out Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment Card is a valuable tool for students to use in clinicals.
• Completely revised Culturally Relevant Mental Health Nursing: A Global Perspective provides basic information on culture, worldviews, and what is necessary for culturally competent care.
• Psychiatric Forensic Nursing discusses this new and expanding specialty involving nursing, forensics, and the criminal justice system.
• Forensic Highlights boxes focus on the nurse's role in dealing with sexual assault, family violence, and incarcerated persons.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes demonstrate how research findings affect psychiatric nursing practice and standards of care.
• Integrative Therapy boxes discuss the increasing popularity and significance of complementary and alternative therapies.
• Culturally Speaking boxes reinforce the importance of culturally competent care.
• A Client Speaks and A Family Speaks bring to life disorders and their effects on clients, their families, and those who care for them.
• Back by popular demand: communication tables in The Clinical Interview and Communication Skills.
• Key Points to Remember appear at the end of each chapter to reinforce essential information.

• The latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of clients with psychiatric disorders.
  
• A focus on clinical information in order to assist the nurse in providing patient care in the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting.
  
• Coverage of all major disorders commonly encountered in a clinical setting.
  
• Care plans with a nursing diagnosis etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales.
  
• A chapter on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching provides coverage of psychopharmacology in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter.

• The most recent information in the field, including the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy and 2005-2006 NANDA nursing diagnoses.
  
• Assessment tools collected in an appendix for quick reference.
  
• An appendix of drug monographs features the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications.
  
• Revised and expanded client outcome sections include additional outcome criteria, short-term goals, and long-term goals for each diagnosis.
  
• Additional content on forensic issues in psychiatric nursing is integrated throughout as applicable.
  
• Online drug cards, updated quarterly, provide users with the latest drug information and can be printed and carried along with the manual.

Richard Taylor provides illuminating responses to these and many other questions in this collection of provocative essays. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 61, the former psychologist courageously shares an account of his slow transformation and deterioration and the growing division between his world and the world of others.

With poignant clarity, candor, and even occasional humor, more than 80 brief essays address difficult issues faced by those with Alzheimer’s disease, including
• the loss of independence and personhood
• unwanted personality shifts
• communication difficulties
• changes in relationships with loved ones and friends
• the declining ability to perform familiar tasks

• Grounded in theory, the text provides a framework for gaining a theoretical perspective.
• Ethical Dilemma boxes appear in each chapter and highlight ethical dilemmas in interpersonal relationships.
• Critical thinking content promotes the application of critical thinking processes essential for effective communication in the nursing practice.
• Discusses humor, gender, and touch in Chapter 10 as important means of communication in interpersonal relationships.
• Communication with patients of all ages, patients with special needs, and colleagues increases awareness of the issues involved in communicating with patients and promotes successful collaboration with coworkers.
• Case examples and exercises appear throughout the text to promote understanding and discussion of topics in the chapter.
• Learning objectives, chapter overviews, and glossary focus the student on essential information and help them study for tests.

• Two new chapters on Documentation in the Age of the Electronic Health Record and Communicating in the Age of eHealth Technology describe how to understand and utilize the most current healthcare communication technology.
• Developing an Evidence-Based Practice boxes appear in each chapter and describe a current research study and how it connects to the concepts in the text.

• The Stuart Stress Adaptation Model provides a consistent nursing-oriented framework for understanding health and wellness.
  
• Evidence-based algorithms are presented in lieu of the less relevant critical pathways found in other texts.
  
• The latest American Nurses Association's Standards of Care prepare students for the realities of evidenced-based care in nursing practice.
  
• A vibrant, full-color design enhances and enriches students' understanding of essential concepts.
  
• Short vignettes in a patient's and family's own words give readers a different perspective of the caregiving process.
  
• Case studies present in-depth clinical scenarios that show each step of the nursing process, demonstrating realistic applications of the nursing process.
  
• Critical thinking questions interspersed throughout the text encourage independent clinical reasoning.
  
• Numerous boxes and tables throughout the book highlight important issues and current topics related to chapter content in visual, easy-to-digest segments.
  
• Citing the Evidence boxes provide summaries of recent clinical research, with new boxes added to the Evolve website each month.
  
• Nursing Treatment Plan Summaries present care plans, including patient goals with nursing interventions and rationales, to guide nursing care related to the treatment of major disorders.
  
• Patient Education Plans and Family Education Plans include key information nurses need to communicate to the patient and family members.
  
• Sample Therapeutic Dialogues for nurse-patient interactions demonstrate the difference between therapeutic and nontherapeutic communication.

• Clinical chapters have been carefully revised and updated to include the latest research and appropriate nursing and medical diagnoses relevant to each disorder.
  
• A strengthened family focus and more in-depth discussion of outpatient care reflect current trends in psychiatric nursing.
  
• NIC and NOC are introduced in the nursing process chapter (chapter 12) and incorporated as appropriate into disorders chapters.
  
• Chapter Focus Points at the end of each chapter provide a comprehensive review of important information.
  
• Key terms are defined in the glossary and listed with page references at the end of the chapter in which they appear.
  
• A comprehensive list of behavioral rating scales is offered as an appendix for easy reference.
  
• A companion CD-ROM offers animations, interactive exercises, review questions for the NCLEX examination, and an audio glossary for additional study and review.
  
• A companion CD-ROM offers animations, interactive exercises, review questions for the NCLEX examination, and an audio glossary for additional study and review.
  
• New chapters explore the latest trends and relevant topics, including: Families as Resources, Caregivers, and Collaborators (Chapter 11); Family Interventions (Chapter 33) Community-Based Psychiatric Nursing Care (Chapter 35); and Psychological Care of Patients with Life Threatening Illness (Chapter 40).