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This practical guide to applying the nursing process to the care of clients with psychiatric disorders and general clients with psychosocial issues teaches psychiatric-mental health nursing as it is really practiced. Readers are encouraged to develop empathy for clients and critical thinking skills to meet the challenges of client care. Case studies, client examples and statements from clients in their own words help readers understand psychiatric and psychosocial nursing practice. The authors provide a complete analysis of the foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing, the science of mental disorders, nursing care of clients with mental disorders and disorders related to development as well as, special topics in psychiatric mental health nursing. For health care professionals and others involved with mental health concerns.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1724143 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 87 pages

From the Back Cover

What does an LPV/LVN need to know and to be able to do in order to deliver safe and effective mental health nursing care? One look at Mental Health Nursing Care and you will see that from start to end, the answers to those questions are well provided! A comprehensive chapter-ending review section is just the beginning of outstanding features and elements woven throughout this book to ensure academic, clinical, and NCLEX-PN test-taking success. Content of the book is streamlined but thorough, allowing the student's focus to remain on the need-to-know information and essential skills. Course completion with this resource is just the beginning of a lifetime of nursing success.

Features that promote success include:

• Critical Thinking Care Maps, Test-Taking Tips, and NCLEX-PN style questions
• Sharing Experiences from nurses, mental health clients, and others
• Culture Care boxes that view mental health issues with a broader perspective
• Reality Check boxes that express the reality of mental disorders in the clients' own words
• Documentation samples, checklists for nurses, and a variety of boxes related to client teaching and understanding the world of mental health nursing.
• Nursing Care features, clinical alerts, discharge considerations, case studies, care plans, and collaborative care sections
• Learning About You pages after each unit that encourage readers to develop insight into their own views about mental health
• FREE CD-ROM with audio glossary, animations and NCLEX-PN style review questions
• FREE Companion Website, www.prenhall.com/eby with chapter-specific online resources, including a syllabus manager, hyperlinks, case studies, NCLF.X-PN style questions, and an audio glossary

About the Author

Linda Eby, RN, MN. Linda Eby received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Nursing degrees from the Oregon Health and Science University. Her work experience includes being a staff nurse and nurse manager in critical care, a home health/hospice nurse, case manager, Clinical Nurse Specialist in clinical genetics, and a psychiatric mental-health nurse. As a member of the nursing faculty at the community college level, she has taught fundamentals of nursing, medical-surgical nursing, and psychiatric-mental health nursing, both theory and clinical. She has consulted and taught workshops on the topics of promoting student success and reducing culture bias in nursing education.

Linda currently teaches Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing theory and clinical courses at Portland Community College. She is also Coordinator of the Nursing Student Success Program. This program promotes the success of nursing students who speak English as a nonnative language, immigrant students, students of color, academically disadvantaged students, and nontraditional students of nursing. Her greatest career accomplishment is contributing to the success of these inspiring students.

She is Secretary of AFT Oregon, state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, and Vice President of the Portland Community College Faculty Federation. She has twin daughters, Kristine who is studying to be a Spanish teacher, and Monica, an artist and nursing lab assistant. She is a nature and arts and crafts enthusiast, an environmentalist, and a good friend to her dogs Wendu and Charlie.

Nancy J. Brown, RN, MSN. Nancy Brown received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Missouri and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Colorado. She has been actively involved in teaching practical nursing for the past 11 years. Other teaching experience includes staff development positions in long-term care and state institutions for 9 years, where she worked closely with LPNs in practice. Nancy had been involved in nursing administration as a Director of Nursing prior to going into nursing education. She received the "Teacher of the Year" award in 1998 from San Juan Basin Technical School, where she currently teaches. In addition to teaching practical nursing, Nancy also coordinates and teaches within the Certified Nursing Assistant program. She is very active in her church and is known as one of the "puppet people" by those who don't remember her name!

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Mental Health Nursing Care was written to provide a broad fundamental knowledge base for LPN/LVN students that is interesting and engaging to read, and readily applicable to nursing practice. Our teaching philosophy is that learning is maximized when the teacher is enthusiastic about the subject; the material is presented in a clear and appealing style; and the concepts are relevant to real application. The learner must be willing to participate in the learning process. Learning is participative. This book is written as psychosocial nursing is really practiced: with intelligence, empathy, caring, and based on evidence. It is above all practical, with strategies that students can actually use to promote the health, well-being, and empowerment of their clients. The major curriculum concepts are:

• Mental health
• The biopsychosocial nature of mental disorders
• Insight development and mental health promotion for nursing students
• The nursing process (a part of which is critical thinking)
• Care of diverse clients (across ages, genders, and cultures)
• Client and nurse empowerment
• Collaborative care with other members of the health-care team
• Psychosocial nursing as a component of general nursing practice, as well as in the psychiatric setting

The writing style is deliberately personal for the purpose of making this complicated and fascinating subject engaging and easy to understand. It is clear without oversimplification or disrespect to the subject or the student. The style, organization, and pedagogy are chosen with adult learning principles in mind.

We wrote this book with the knowledge that the majority of nurses do not practice in the psychiatric nursing specialty. Promoting mental health and working with clients with mental disorders and psychosocial issues are part of the nursing role in every practice setting. We teach students to practice psychosocial nursing with diverse clients in a variety of settings. We bring in case studies and quotes from clients in their own words to help students who do not have psychiatric nursing clinical opportunities to develop empathy for our clients.

The authors bring their enthusiasm and experience in teaching psychiatric mental health nursing to this book. We teach the theory and practice of psychiatric nursing to diverse nursing students. The needs of students who speak English as a nonnative language, immigrant students, and other nontraditional students were considered in the writing of this book. Advocacy for people who have mental disorders and their families is an important aspect of the book as well. We are committed to psychiatric nursing education, and to helping you teach your students.

Organization

UNIT 1: Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing provides a basis for understanding the fundamentals on which psychiatric nursing is built. Personality development is discussed as a psychosocial basis for mental disorders. Various personality theories are presented as the basis for the various therapeutic approaches to disorders of thinking, feeling, and behavior. Mental health and mental illness are covered, as well as the stigma of mental illness in our culture. Practical strategies for mental-health promotion are included. Stress management is presented as it relates to clients and nurses.

UNIT 2: Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing encourages the mentally healthy practice of nursing. The nurse-client relationship is presented as the foundation of nursing practice. Ethical and legal aspects of psychiatric nursing are covered in this unit. The importance of client advocacy is emphasized. The biological basis for mental disorders is discussed. Psychopharmacology is given its rightful place as a major cornerstone of psychiatric nursing, but not the only cornerstone.

UNIT 3: Nursing Care of Clients with Mental Disorders covers specific biological and clinical information about the major mental illnesses included in the DSM-IV-TR. Biological and psychosocial issues are the foundation for nursing goals and interventions. The nursing process provides the format for nursing practice. Medication management, collaboration with other health professionals, and client empowerment are integral parts.

UNIT 4: Nursing Care of Clients with Disorders Related to Development includes disorders of children, adolescents, and the elderly. Dementia and cognitive disorders are covered extensively because of their importance in nursing practice. Eating disorders are also presented here.

UNIT 5: Special Topics in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing includes the timely topics of violence and abuse, as well as psychosocial issues for general client care. The final chapter takes psychosocial nursing to every client and presents realistic strategies for managing the care of "difficult" clients in general nursing practice.

Each chapter begins with Sharing Experiences, that provide words of wisdom from the lived experiences of those who have been touched by mental illness. Learning Outcomes map the direction and goals of each chapter.

Key Terms are defined in each chapter when they are first used. They are also included in an audio glossary on the Companion Website and Student CDROM, in which the words are spoken aloud to provide guidance for pronunciation. Key Points summarize the vital points in each chapter that will continue to be important for years to come.

The clinical chapters end with Critical Thinking Care Maps that provide brief case studies, assessment data, and a nursing diagnosis. The student sorts the data, chooses from interventions provided, evaluates the outcomes, and charts the results.

A built-in study guide concludes each chapter. The study guides have NCLEX-style questions, learning activities, and a For Further Study feature. This is a handy list of cross-references within the book to facilitate locating related topics. EXPLORE MediaLink calls attention to additional interactive learning activities on the Companion Website and CD-ROM.

Features

• Features are based on adult learning principles.
• The Learning About You! feature captures students' interest and applies their learning to their own lives.
• Multiple strategies to promote critical thinking:
• Critical Self-Checks, which encourage readers to clarify their own values and beliefs, and to think critically about topics in psychiatric nursing
• Critical Thinking Care Maps in each clinical chapter
• NCLEX-PN style review questions in each chapter
• Multiple Case Examples to provide insight into mental disorders
• Clinical Alerts underscore priority issues that "you can't afford to miss."
• Nursing Process Care Plans illustrate realistic situations and engage students in problem solving and application of their new knowledge.
• Culture Care boxes highlight transcultural nursing issues.
• Reality Check boxes present experiences of real people with mental illnesses in their own words.
• Client Empowerment Plans, unique to our book, combine teaching and empowerment strategies for clients with selected mental disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, generalized anxiety, and families of patients with cognitive impairment). These empowerment plans are formatted with the thought of duplication for client-teaching purposes. They include client and family teaching, collaboration with care providers, problem-solving and coping strategies, and self-advocacy.
• Visual appeal is achieved by more boxes, tables, diagrams, figures, and general art features, than any analogous text.
• Websites for further study are included in each chapter, in addition to the Website created as a companion to this book.

TO THE FACULTY

This book and its supplements are intended to be realistic and practical supports to your course on Psychiatric Nursing. Supplemental materials include the Instructor's Resource Manual that contains:

• NCLEX-style test bank organized by chapters of the book
• Class discussion/lecture outlines
• Strategies for promoting the success of students who speak English as a nonnative language
• List of lecture PowerPoints and PowerPoint images that are available on the CD-ROM
• A collection of all the case studies, critical thinking care maps, and end-of-chapter study guides from the book
• "Teaching Critical Thinking" strategies
• A section on avoiding culture bias in nursing exams
• Suggestions for community experiences/assignments to supplement the students' learning about mental health resources in their communities
• Clinical approaches for enhancing students' clinical learning.

The Instructor's Resource CD-ROM includes:

• Electronic version of the Instructor's Resource Manual allows you to customize your lesson plans
• Chapter-related PowerPoint presentations that contain reproductions of the textbook illustrations to enhance your classroom lectures
• Time-saving chapter-related electronic Test Bank with NCLEX-style questions for pre- and post-learning assessment

The Companion Website includes:

• Syllabus Manager
• Faculty Office
• Web Links
• Audio Glossary
• Study Tips

TO THE STUDENT

This book was created to be a realistic and interesting resource for you as you learn about the fascinating subject of Psychiatric Nursing. Whether you want to specialize in psychiatric nursing or you never see the inside of a psychiatric hospital, you will use the information you learn here to help clients with mental disorders an...

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Customer Reviews

Mental Health text that you can understand
There are way too many nursing books out there where the author is more interested in bloating their own ego than actually making a readable text. Linda Eby takes psych and makes it understandable. I used this book in nursing school and I actually started using it for concepts my other text books made way too hard. You won't be sorry you bought this book. Buy it.

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