Nurse-Client Communication presents an overview of effective communication and its influence on therapeutic relationships across the life span. Nursing students, novice, and experienced nurses will find this unique book refreshing, informative, and essential in working with clients, families, and professional colleagues in various practice settings. In addition, this text focuses on the impact of culture, ethnicity, and the impact of the nurse's own culture on communication, empathy, and understanding.

Nurse-Client Communication: A Life Span Approach: A Life Span Approach (Antia-Otong, Nurse-Client Commumication)

Medical Books

Antai-Otong, Deborah

Nursing

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Perfect for both student and professional nurses who work directly with patients, Psychiatric Nursing Pocket Guide focuses specifically on aspects of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Topics include: • Disorders, • Assessment, • Interventions, • Medications, • Patient and family communication and education, and • DSM-IV classifications.

Psychiatric Nursing Pocket Guide

Psychiatric Nursing familiarizes the user with the basis of adaptation and human responses across the lifespan. It integrates neurobiological, psychosocial, life span, cultural, and spiritual principles of complex processes that give rise to various psychiatric disorders. The text offers thorough, informative, and germain content to holistically care for clients living with these psychiatric disorders within diverse settings.

Psychiatric Nursing: Biological and Behavioral Concepts

Allied Health Professions

Delmar/Cengage Learning

Psychiatric Emergencies, now in its second edition, presents an easy-to-read, contemporary and evidence-based approach to managing psychiatric emergencies. Health care providers in a wide variety of settings will find this newly updated and expanded handbook a necessity in recognizing and assessing psychiatric problems promptly and accurately, intervening safely, and initiating appropriate treatment and resultant case disposition decisions. The scenarios presented are reflective of the author's extensive experiences and clinical expertise in managing psychiatric emergencies. Author Deborah Antai-Otong analyzes principles of psychiatric emergencies and prominent pryshiatric disorders seen in diverse clinical settings, including alcohol and drug-related emergencies, delirium, suicidal and violent behaviors, domestic violence, rape, depression and anxiety disorders, acute psychosis and others. This book offers a holistic approach to managing psychiatric emergencies with an initial focus on staff safety, and details the role of critical incident stress debriefing as part of working with staff exposed to violent or traumatic situations. Each psychiatric problem presented describes: -Relevant clinical findings including differential diagnosis, physical findings, mental status data, and diagnostic and laboratory studies -Strategies to individualize treatment approaches to clients with psychiatric crises -Psychosocial interventions that help health care providers to maintain personal safety, establish appropriate environments and de-escalate potentially volatile situations -Evidence-based pharmacological interventions that are effective in the management of acute psychiatric symptoms -Client and family education that promotes mental and physical health -Legal and ethical considerations, including the right to treatment, confidentiality, informed consent, dealing with minors, competency, emergency petitions, the right to refuse treatment, duty to warn and protect, and documentation

Psychiatric Emergencies: How to Accurately Assess and Manage the Patient in Crisis

Medicine

Pesi Pub & Media

Succeed in your nursing course and have fun with Studyware software! This dynamic resource is packed with interactive games, quizzes, and other resources that your mastery of key concepts in the corresponding chapter in your textbook.

Studyware for Antai-Otong’s Psychiatric Nursing: Biological & Behavioral Concepts, 2nd

Cengage Learning'

Includes: Key Terms and various Activities such as true/false, fill-in-the-gap tables, short-answers, reading assignments, a self-assessment quiz and answers to the activities and answers to the self-assessment quiz.

Student Study Guide To Accompany Psychiatric Nursing: Biological and Behavioral Concepts

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Welcome to the first clinical resource in mental health designed especially for the nurse! This unique reference provides essential facts and details for a variety of psychiatric disorders, such as Anxiety; Bipolar; Personality; Dissociative; Sleep; and Eating. Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Companion is the most practical single nursing tool to care for clients with a mental health disorder.

Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Companion

Mental Health

Psychiatric Nursing: Biological & Behavioral Concepts with Psychiatric Clinical Companion

Delmar Pub

The second edition of Psychiatric Nursing: Biological and Behavioral Concepts builds on the successful biological approach and life span perspective of the first edition, and adds a greater focus on nursing care. Beginning with the basic concepts of psychiatric nursing, it presents disorders as they are experienced throughout the life span. The text discusses therapeutic interventions, from psychopharmacologic therapies to group and family therapy to electroconvulsive therapy. It concludes by analyzing the specific roles of the psychiatric nurse in general practice as well as specialty areas. Case studies have been added to encourage application and develop clinical decision-making skills. The scientific foundation has been strengthened even further, with more brain scans and research abstracts, contributing to a full understanding of the scientific basis for psychiatric nursing. This dynamic resource will help develop psychiatric nursing skills while highlighting current advances within this discipline.

Psychiatric Nursing: Biological & Behavioral Concepts

The Student Study Guide is designed to reinforce core concepts and central themes from the textbook using case studies, self-assessment questions and other activities designed to foster critical thinking skills. This resource provides the opportunity to analyze subject matter related to mental health disorders and nursing care in preparation for practice applications.

Student Study Guide for Antai-Otong's Psychiatric Nursing: Biological & Behavioral Concepts, 2nd

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