Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Psychiatric** Prepare for psychiatric nursing care with this comprehensive, evidence-based text! Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 9th Edition makes it easy to understand the complexities of psychiatric disorders and how to provide quality mental and behavioral health care. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application, preparing you for practice with real-world examples. Other notable features include illustrated explanations of the neurobiology of disorders, DSM-5 criteria for major disorders, and nursing care plans. From clinical nurse specialist and lead author Dr. Margaret Jordan Halter, this bestselling text includes new Next Generation NCLEX® content to prepare you for success on your PMHN certification exam.

  • Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice.
  • Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
  • Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews.
  • Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting.
  • Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills.
  • Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders.
  • Considering Culture boxes discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations.
  • Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse’s role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects.
  • NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) case studies and questions are provided at the end of each clinical chapter to support critical thinking and prepare you for your state board examination.
  • NEW! Updated screening tools and rating scales make it easier to quantify symptoms and assess the severity of a disorder.
  • NEW! Advanced practice treatment modalities are addressed separately from the nursing process in the categories of biological interventions (e.g., pharmacotherapy and brain stimulation therapies) and psychological therapies (e.g., cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy).
  • NEW! Emphasis on adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and trauma-informed care addresses the near-universal experience of trauma in individuals with psychiatric disorders and conditions.
  • NEW! Order of clinical chapters mirrors that of the DSM-5, and many of the major disorders are accompanied by specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.
  • NEW! Health Policy boxes are updated to describe current legislation related to mental health.
  • NEW! The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), from the International Council of Nurses (ICN), provides straightforward nursing diagnoses that are easily translatable across settings and disciplines.
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Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Psychiatric** Prepare for psychiatric nursing care with this comprehensive, evidence-based text! Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 9th Edition makes it easy to understand the complexities of psychiatric disorders and how to provide quality mental and behavioral health care. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application, preparing you for practice with real-world examples. Other notable features include illustrated explanations of the neurobiology of disorders, DSM-5 criteria for major disorders, and nursing care plans. From clinical nurse specialist and lead author Dr. Margaret Jordan Halter, this bestselling text includes new Next Generation NCLEX® content to prepare you for success on your PMHN certification exam.

  • Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice.
  • Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
  • Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews.
  • Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting.
  • Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills.
  • Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders.
  • Considering Culture boxes discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations.
  • Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse’s role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects.
  • NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) case studies and questions are provided at the end of each clinical chapter to support critical thinking and prepare you for your state board examination.
  • NEW! Updated screening tools and rating scales make it easier to quantify symptoms and assess the severity of a disorder.
  • NEW! Advanced practice treatment modalities are addressed separately from the nursing process in the categories of biological interventions (e.g., pharmacotherapy and brain stimulation therapies) and psychological therapies (e.g., cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy).
  • NEW! Emphasis on adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and trauma-informed care addresses the near-universal experience of trauma in individuals with psychiatric disorders and conditions.
  • NEW! Order of clinical chapters mirrors that of the DSM-5, and many of the major disorders are accompanied by specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.
  • NEW! Health Policy boxes are updated to describe current legislation related to mental health.
  • NEW! The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), from the International Council of Nurses (ICN), provides straightforward nursing diagnoses that are easily translatable across settings and disciplines.
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Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

by Margaret Jordan Halter PhD, APRN
Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

by Margaret Jordan Halter PhD, APRN

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Psychiatric** Prepare for psychiatric nursing care with this comprehensive, evidence-based text! Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 9th Edition makes it easy to understand the complexities of psychiatric disorders and how to provide quality mental and behavioral health care. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application, preparing you for practice with real-world examples. Other notable features include illustrated explanations of the neurobiology of disorders, DSM-5 criteria for major disorders, and nursing care plans. From clinical nurse specialist and lead author Dr. Margaret Jordan Halter, this bestselling text includes new Next Generation NCLEX® content to prepare you for success on your PMHN certification exam.

  • Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice.
  • Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
  • Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews.
  • Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting.
  • Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills.
  • Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders.
  • Considering Culture boxes discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations.
  • Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse’s role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects.
  • NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) case studies and questions are provided at the end of each clinical chapter to support critical thinking and prepare you for your state board examination.
  • NEW! Updated screening tools and rating scales make it easier to quantify symptoms and assess the severity of a disorder.
  • NEW! Advanced practice treatment modalities are addressed separately from the nursing process in the categories of biological interventions (e.g., pharmacotherapy and brain stimulation therapies) and psychological therapies (e.g., cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy).
  • NEW! Emphasis on adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and trauma-informed care addresses the near-universal experience of trauma in individuals with psychiatric disorders and conditions.
  • NEW! Order of clinical chapters mirrors that of the DSM-5, and many of the major disorders are accompanied by specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.
  • NEW! Health Policy boxes are updated to describe current legislation related to mental health.
  • NEW! The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), from the International Council of Nurses (ICN), provides straightforward nursing diagnoses that are easily translatable across settings and disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780323697071
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date: 08/13/2021
Edition description: 9th ed.
Pages: 696
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Margaret Jordan Halter, PhD, APRN

Table of Contents

UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY

Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness

Chapter 2 Relevant Theories and Therapies for Nursing Practice

Chapter 3 Biological Basis for Understanding Psychiatric Disorders and Treatments

UNIT TWO: FOUNDATIONS FOR PRACTICE

Chapter 4 Settings for Psychiatric Care

Chapter 5 Cultural Implications for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 6 Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Safe Practice

UNIT THREE: PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING TOOLS

Chapter 7 The Nursing Process and Standards of Care for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 8 Therapeutic Relationships

Chapter 9 Communication and the Clinical Interview

Chapter 10 Understanding and Managing Responses to Stress

UNIT FOUR: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DISORDERS

Chapter 11Childhood and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Chapter 12 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Chapter 13 Bipolar and Related Disorders

Chapter 14 Depressive Disorders

Chapter 15 Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders

Chapter 16 Trauma, Stressor Related and Dissociative Disorders

Chapter 17 Somatic Symptom Disorders

Chapter 18 Feeding, Eating and Elimination Disorders

Chapter 19 Sleep-Wake Disorders

Chapter 20 Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphylias

Chapter 21 Impulsive Control Disorders

Chapter 22 Personality Disorders

UNIT FIVE: TRAUMA INTERVENTIONS

Chapter 23 Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Chapter 24 Crisis and Disaster

Chapter 25 Anger, Aggression and Violence

Chapter 26 Child, Elder, and Intimate Partner Violence

Chapter 27 Sexual Assault

UNIT SIX: INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Chapter 28 Psychosocial Needs of the Older Adult

Chapter 29 Serious Mental Illness

Chapter 30 Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

Chapter 32 Care for the Dying and for Those Who Grieve

UNIT SEVEN: OTHER INTERVENTION MODALITIES

Chapter 33Therapeutic Groups

Chapter 34 Family Interventions

Chapter 35 Integrative Therapies

APPENDICES

A DSM-5 Classification

B Historic Synopsis of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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