Key features

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• •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.
• •Assessment Guidelines familiarize readers with methods of assessing patients.
• •Potential Nursing Diagnosis tables give several possible nursing diagnoses for a particular disorder along with the associated signs and symptoms.
• •DSM-5 diagnostic criteria identifies medical diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders for integration into the nursing plan of care.
• •Important contributions from psychiatric mental health nursing pioneers are featured in the opening unit pages.
• •Cultural Considerations sections reinforce the principles of culturally competent care.
• •Key Points to Remember outline the main concepts of each chapter in an easy to comprehend and concise bulleted list.
• •Appendices feature the DSM-5 Classifications and a list of the latest NANDA-I diagnoses for readers’ reference.
• •NEW! DSM-5 content provides the most up to date information on the latest DSM-5 disorders.
• •NEW! Illustrations of various neurobiology disorders give readers a clear picture of how the disorder affects brain function.
• •NEW! Neurobiology teaching tool visually guides readers in learning about various neurobiology disorders and relevant medications and side effects.
• •NEW! NCLEX review questions on the Evolve companion site provide additional practice on the type of psychiatric nursing content found on the latest NCLEX test plan.
• •NEW! Image collection on the Evolve companion site offers a visual supplement to help learn and reinforce concepts.