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• Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) activities with guidelines for attaining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to fulfill the initiative’s core competencies
• Therapeutic communication icon that highlights talking points and interventions in the care plans to help students build confidence and feel more comfortable speaking with patients
• Homework assignments at the beginning of each chapter to encourage critical reading
• Emphasis on holistic nursing to emphasize the physical, spiritual, and cultural aspects of psychiatric mental health nursing
• “Real People, Real Stories” boxes featuring interviews with patients who have chapter-relevant disorders, including substance use disorders, ADHD/OCD, gender dysphoria, and more
• List of core concepts at the beginning of each chapter with definitions in boxes throughout the text
• Concept map care plans for all major psychiatric diagnoses
• Care Plans for clients with DSM-5 diagnoses featuring interventions and rationales for commonly observed nursing diagnoses
• ANA standards for clinical practice for DSM diagnoses and therapeutic interventions, as well as for aging individuals, bereaved individuals, and victims of abuse and neglect
• Boxes highlighting client/family education communications and tables listing important topics for discussion
• Case studies and exercises designed to stimulate critical thinking

Davis Advantage—Online Personalized Learning

• Creates personalized learning plans tailored to students’ individual needs
• Reinforces learning and engages students through videos and interactive activities to further drive mastery
• Provides personalized teaching plans that support instructors in both virtual and in-person classroom settings
• Tracks individual progress and class performance so students know where they need to focus their studies and instructors can intervene when necessary
• Integrated ebook for reference anytime, anywhere

Davis Edge—Online Quizzing

• Thousands of NCLEX®-style questions aligned to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing with page references
• Comprehensive rationales for both correct and incorrect responses to promote in-depth understanding and to help students understand the logic behind each question
• Test-taking tips to help prepare students for classroom exams and the NCLEX®
• Alternate-format questions that build students' confidence for these more difficult types of questions, including select-all-that-apply (SATA), prioritization and ordered response
• Analytics that provide instructors with need-to-know insight into how students’ comprehension and test-taking skills are progressing