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• Taxonomy and diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 with references for each DSM-5 diagnosis
• 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 feel more comfortable 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
• Core concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter and defined 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 including client/family education
• Case studies and exercises designed to stimulate critical thinking

Interactive Clinical Scenarios (Accessible on the Distance Learning Hub)

• Walks students through the nursing process with simulated scenarios that help them to learn how to think like a nurse in a safe setting
• Features client summaries, multiple-choice questions with rationales, and drag-and-drop activities for specific disorders, including suicide, drug addiction, gender dysphoria, sexual abuse, and grief

Davis Advantage (Added December 2020)

• 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

• Thousands of NCLEX®-style questions aligned to Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• 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 exams and reduce their anxieties
• Alternate-format questions that build students' confidence for these more difficult types of questions, including "select-all-that-apply" and "ordered response"
• Responsive design that allows access from laptop, tablet, and mobile devices