Key features

• •Free! Access to Davis Edge quizzing at no additional charge with purchase of new, printed texts or digital access.
• •Taxonomy and diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 with references for each DSM-5 diagnosis
• •Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) activities with guidelines for attaining the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to fulfill the initiative’s core competencies
• •Therapeutic communication icon that highlights talking points and interventions in the care plans to help students feel more comfortable with patients
• •Homework assignments at the beginning of each chapter to encourage critical reading
• •Emphasis on holistic nursing to emphasize the physical, spiritual, and cultural aspects of psychiatric/mental health nursing
• •Core concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter and defined in boxes throughout the text
• •Concept map care plans for all major psychiatric diagnoses
• •Care Plans for clients with DSM-5 diagnoses featuring interventions and rationales for commonly observed nursing diagnoses
• •ANA standards for clinical practice for DSM diagnoses and therapeutic interventions, as well as for aging individuals, bereaved individuals, and victims of abuse and neglect
• •Boxes highlighting client/family education communications and tables listing important topics for discussion including client/family education
• •Case studies and exercises designed to stimulate critical thinking
• •Simulated scenarios that walk through the nursing process, allowing students to learn how to think like a nurse in a safe setting
• •Includes client summaries, multiple-choice questions with rationales, and drag-and-drop activities for specific disorders, including suicide, drug addiction, gender dysphoria, sexual abuse, and grief
• •Thousands of NCLEX®-style questions aligned to Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• •Comprehensive rationales for both correct and incorrect answers to promote in-depth understanding and to help students understand the logic behind each question
• •Test-taking tips to help prepare students for exams and reduce their anxieties
• •Alternate-format questions that build students' confidence for these more difficult types of questions, including "select all that apply" and "ordered response"
• •Responsive design that allows access from laptop, tablet, and mobile devices
• •Access your eBook to make studying and reviewing on the go even easier