Awarded third place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Category. Get a full understanding of today’s psychiatric nursing practice in less time!offers the perfect balance of essential nursing interventions and clinical content paired with current research and evidence-based practice to fully equip you for today’s field of mental health nursing.

This new edition continues to retain the reader-friendly style, emphasis on therapeutic communication, and the nursing process organization that was successful in the previous edition. It also includes additional DSM-5 disorders, illustrations of various neurobiology disorders, a new neurobiology learning tool, and new NCLEX review questions to help you pass your course and thoroughly prepare for the psychiatric nursing section of the NCLEX.

• REVISED! Examining the Evidence boxes explain the reasoning behind nursing interventions and how research affects everyday practice.
• UNIQUE! Applying the Art sections in the clinical chapters provide examples of therapeutic and nontherapeutic communication techniques as well as realistic nurse-patient interaction scenarios.
• Chapter review questions reinforce essential content from the chapter.
• Critical thinking questions introduce clinical situations in psychiatric nursing.
• Nursing Interventions tables familiarize readers with interventions for a disorder that they will encounter in clinical practice.
• Key concepts and terms clarify essential terminology.
• Vignettes offer succinct, real-life glimpses into clinical practice by describing patients and their psychiatric disorders.

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