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Book Detail
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Psychiatric Nursing:
Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications
Townsend, Mary C.
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Previous ISBN (13): 9780803625068 Category: Nursing: Psychiatric Publisher: F.A. Davis Company Imprint: F.A. Davis Company Dimensions: 8.0 x 1.0 x 4.5 in
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Synopsis:
- Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers.
- Concept Mapping and the use of Concept Care Map Plans introduced in Chapter 1.
- Organized by DSM-5 and NANDA diagnoses.
- Nursing diagnoses and interventions include the definition, possible etiologies ("Related to ..."), defining characteristics ("Evidenced by ..."), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria.
- Each psychiatric disorder lists background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions commonly associated with the disorder.
- Unit on psychotropic drug classifications covers anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications.
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