Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology (5th Edition) – eBook

A handy clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 5th Edition, (PDF) provides you the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5, for correct assessment and diagnosis of patients. It presents easy and quick access to plans of care for a range of settings including home care, inpatient unit, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth Varcarolis offers a clinically-based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to supplement Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this ebook is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use.

• Assessment Guides, including charts, tables, and questionnaires facilitate patient diagnosis and care.
•  Coverage of major disorders exposes you to an extensive range of disorders within psychiatric nursing.
• An emphasis on clinical information furnishes you with information on providing patient care in a range of settings.
• The most recent diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you informed with the most current information.
• A section on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Patient and Family Teaching, along with the content found in every disorder chapter, helps you better understand the uses and workings of the psychotropic agents
• Care plans including nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, long- and short-term goals, outcome criteria, and interventions and rationales present plans of care for a wide range of psychiatric nursing diagnoses.

Additional ISBNs: 978-1455740192, 0323294928, 978-1455740185, 9780323294928, 978-0323294928

New in Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology 5e:

• NEW! Updated medications offer you the latest information on medications used with psychiatric patients.
• NEW! Updated 2012-2014NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses present information on the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing.
• NEW! The latest information in the field, including the DSM-5, provides you with the latest diagnostic information available for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients.
• NEW! 2007 ANA Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice acquaint you with the current guidelines for the practice of psychiatric nursing.

NOTE: The product only includes the ebook Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 5th Edition in PDF. No access codes are included.