Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing

• Combines Townsend's Pocket Guide and selected drug classifications with the associated drug data from Townsend's Drug Guide
• Discusses seven major psychotropic drug classifications that cover antianxiety agents, antidepressants, antimanic agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and central nervous system stimulants
• Five chapters added that cover HIV disease, homelessness, psychiatric home nursing care, forensic nursing, and complementary therapies

KEY FEATURES

• Each chapter covers a specific group of DSM-IV disorders including: definition, predisposing factors, and symptomatology
• Each nursing diagnosis includes the definition, etiologies, defining characteristics, goals/objectives, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria
• Each drug class includes general pharmacologic data, representative drugs from a given drug class, nursing diagnoses, and nursing implications

The book contains two-color illustrations.