Principles and practice of psychiatric nursing /

Stuart, Gail Wiscarz

Principles and practice of psychiatric nursing / Gail W. Stuart, Michele T. Laraia - 8th edition - St Louis, Missouri : Mosby / Elsevier, c2005 - xxv, 900 p. : ill. ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Brief Contents:

Unit One: Principles of Psychiatric Nursing Care
1.Roles and functions of psychiatric nurses: competent caring
2.Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship
3.Conceptual models of psychiatric treatment
4.The Stuart stress adaptation model of psychiatric nursing care
5.Evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice
6.Biological context of psychiatric nursing care
7.Psychological context of psychiatric nursing care
8.Social, cultural, and spiritual context of psychiatric nursing care
9.Environmental context of psychiatric nursing care
10.Legal and ethical context of psychiatric nursing care
11.Families as resources, caregivers, and collaborators
12.Implementing the nursing process: standards of care and professional performance

Unit Two: Continuum of Care
13.Mental health promotion and illness prevention
14.Crisis intervention
15.Psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery

Unit Three: Applying Principles in Nursing Practice
16.Anxiety responses and anxiety disorders
17.Psychophysiological responses and somatoform and sleep disorders
18.Self-concept responses and dissociative disorders
19.Emotional responses and mood disorders
20.Self-protective responses and suicidal behavior
21.Neurobiological responses and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
22.Social responses and personality disorders
23.Cognitive responses and organic mental disorders
24.Chemically mediated responses and substance-related disorders
25.Eating regulation responses and eating disorders
26.Sexual responses and sexual disorders

Unit Four: Treatment Modalities
27.Psychopharmacology
28.Somatic therapies
29.Complementary and alternative therapies
30.Preventing and managing aggressive behavior
31.Cognitive behavioral treatment strategies
32.Therapeutic groups
33.Family interventions

Unit five: Treatment settings
34.Hospital-based psychiatric nursing care
35.Community-based psychiatric nursing care

Unit six: Special population in psychiatry
36.Child psychiatric nursing
37.Adolescent psychiatric nursing
38.Geropsychiatric nursing
39.Care of survivors of abuse and violence
40.Psychological care of patients with life-threatening illness.

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Psychiatric nursing.
Psychiatric nursing.--Methods
Mental disorders--Nursing

WY 160 S929p 2005