Psychiatric nursing

« Learn the therapeutic skills you need for your role in psychiatric nursing care! Psychiatric Nursing uses a practical, three-pronged approach to psychotherapeutic management that clearly explains how to care for patients with psychiatric disorders. It emphasizes the nurse's three primary tools: themselves, medications, and the environment. Written by Norman L. Keltner, Carol E. Bostrom, and Teena McGuinness, each an educator and advanced practice nurse, this text covers the latest trends and treatments and provides a solid, real-world foundation for the practice of safe and effective psychiatric nursing care. » -- [Résumé de l'éditeur].

Unit I. Introduction to psychiatric nursing. Introduction to psychiatric nursing -- Psychotherapeutic management in the continuum of care -- Models for working with psychiatric patients -- Legal issues -- Psychobiologic bases of behavior

Unit II. Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. Nurse-patient communication -- Nurse-patient relationship -- Nursing process -- Stress, anxiety, coping, and crisis -- Suicide and other self destructive behaviors -- Working with the aggressive patient -- Working with groups of patients -- Working with the family -- Cultural competence in psychiatric nursing -- Spirituality

Unit III. Psychopharmacology. Introduction to psychotropic drugs -- Antiparkinsonian drugs -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Antidepressant drugs -- Antimanic drugs -- Antianxiety drugs -- Antidementia drugs

Unit IV. Milieu management. Introduction to milieu management -- Variables affecting the therapeutic environment -- Therapeutic environment in various treatment settings

Unit V. Psychopathology. Introduction to psychopathology -- Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- Depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Anxiety-related, somatoform, and dissociative disorders -- Cognitive disorders …