Nurse & Patient, Nursing Pharmacology, Substance Use & Abuse - Medical Aspects, Psychiatric Nursing, Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology
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Overview
Psychiatric Nursing focuses on the therapeutic skills expected of today's psychiatric nurse. This book uses the simple and unique model of psychotherapeutic management, which is composed of three components: 1) The Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Relationship provides the nursing student with the tools necessary for effective communication with individual patients, groups of patients, families of patients, and patients from various cultural backgrounds; 2) Psychopharmacology offers information on the most important psychotropic drugs used in psychiatry today, including important nursing responsibilities associated with their administration; and 3) Milieu Management explores the importance of developing the therapeutic environment to maximize its contribution to patient care.Compares DSM-IV & realted NANDA diagnoses/incl. critical thinking questions of a legal or ethical nature/etc
Book Details
Published
March 1, 1999
Publisher
Mosby
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780323004008