Manual of psychiatric nursing skills
Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Skills guides nursing students and practicing nurses towards enhancing fundamental psychiatric nursing skills competency in specific assessment and interventions for the selected psychiatric disorders. A nursing skill book in a manual format, this text is handy at the c...
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Sudbury, MA
Jones & Bartlett Learning
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Basic concepts for psychiatric-mental health nursing practice
- Therapeutic use of self
- Modification of the environment
- Interview techniques and the biopsychosocial nursing assessment
- Developing and maintaining therapeutic relationships
- Leading psychoeducation groups
- Assessment and interventions for the client with severe anxiety
- Major depression
- Assessment of suicidal ideations, gestures, and attempts
- Assessment of bipolar disorders : acute manic phase
- Assessment of schizophrenia
- Restriction to locked seclusion and physical/mechanical restraints
- Administration and monitoring of psychotropic medications : antipsychotics
- Administration and monitoring of psychotropic medications : antidepressants
- Administration and monitoring of psychotropic medications : anticonvulsants/anxiolytics
- Psychiatric emergencies
- Crisis intervention in domestic violence and abuse
- Crisis intervention in disasters.