A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 5th Edition supplies you with the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5, for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. It offers quick and easy access to plans of care for a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth Varcarolis, provides a clinically-based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use. The latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you up-to-date with the most current information. Care plans containing nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long- and short-term goals, and interventions and rationales offer plans of care for a wide range of psychiatric nursing diagnoses. A focus on clinical information furnishes you with information on providing patient care in a range of settings. Assessment Guides, including tables, charts, and questionnaires facilitate patient diagnosis and care. A chapter on Major Psychotropic Interventions and Patient and Family Teaching, in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter, helps you better understand the uses and workings of the psychotropic agents. Coverage of major disorders exposes you to a wide range of disorders within psychiatric nursing. The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-5 taxonomy (due to publish May 2013) with diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. Current psychiatric nursing guidelines are based on ANA's 2007 Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Updated 2009-2011 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses assist with accurate diagnoses by including the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing. Updated drug information includes the latest on medications used with psychiatric patients, for optimal drug therapy.

A pocket-sized clinical companion, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning, 4th Edition helps you assess psychiatric nursing clients, formulate nursing diagnoses, and design psychiatric nursing care plans. It offers quick and easy access to information on care in a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Expert author Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA, provides a clinically based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use. Current coverage includes the latest diagnoses, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information relevant to nursing care of patients with psychiatric disorders. Clinically based information helps you provide patient care in a range of environments including the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. Coverage of all major disorders includes those commonly encountered in a clinical setting. A consistent format for each care plan includes a nursing diagnosis, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions and rationales. Assessment tools such as tables, charts, and questionnaires are provided in an appendix for quick reference. A Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client and Family Teaching chapter describes the uses and workings of psychotropic agents. The latest diagnostic information includes the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy with diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. Current psychiatric nursing guidelines are based on ANA's 2007 Psychiatric Mental-Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Updated 2009-2011 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses assist with accurate diagnoses by including the latest nursing diagnoses related to psychiatric nursing. Updated drug information includes the latest on medications used with psychiatric patients, for optimal drug therapy.

With this classic text, you'll discover the essential care plan models you need to enhance the consistency and effectiveness of your nursing care and to improve communication among the health care team. Complete coverage addresses the basic concepts, issues, and interventions that provide the foundation for psychiatric nursing practice; more than 50 psychiatric nursing care plans apply theory to real-world practice; behavioral approach addresses commonly encountered challenges and makes the text equally useful inside and outside the clinical setting; nursing process focus includes the latest NANDA diagnostic criteria; therapeutic goals link assessment data to expected outcomes; assessment parameters sharpen essential diagnostic skills; rationale for interventions provides the how and why for specific actions. New sections address guidelines for delivering culturally competent care and health promotion and early interventions for care-givers; outcomes-focused care sets specific goals for nursing interventions; multiplicity of care settings, including home care and partial hospitalization discuss the growing trend away from full-time hospital care; transitions into the community reflect today's changing health care environment; psychopharmacology content is fully updated to include the latest therapeutic agents and data.

Accompanying CD-ROM has nursing care plans, a customizable psychosocial assessment tool, and monographs about psychotropic drugs.

This supplemental text of 54 updated nursing care plans addresses the most commonly encountered behaviors and behavior complexes in psychiatric and mental health nursing. The thoroughly updated Sixth Edition responds to current community-based care settings, across-the-lifespan care, cultural considerations, and violence in the community. Also, this edition presents a stronger focus on interdisciplinary care; community resources available to clients and their family/support groups; Web-based resources; communication content; and a sample assessment tool. DSM-IV-TR terminology/organization and NANDA diagnoses are used. and it includes a free disk with printable nursing care plans that students can customize!

This pocket-sized clinical companion is designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of psychiatric nursing care plans. It provides quick and easy access to the detailed and concrete information students need to know as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. The content is clinically based, rather than theory based. This avoids repetition of material that students already have in their mental health nursing textbooks and makes it a perfect reference for clinical use.

- New care plans, many that focus on the family, join completely updated and revised care plans to make this text the most comprehensive psychiatric nursing care planning text available. - Dynamic internal design emphasizes the care plans as the focus of the text; tabbed pages noting the relevant disorder and a complete list of care plans with page number references make finding a specific care plan easier than ever before. - Appropriate Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) labels are presented with each care plan in order that students become familiar with these emerging classifications and practicing nurses can easily identify them for use in their care setting if applicable. - A comprehensive pharmacotherapy appendix includes the most recent psychotropic drug information and appropriate related client care. - Online Resources for the nurse, client, and family conclude each chapter.

A thoughtful, portable clinical companion, Varcarolis’ Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: An Interprofessional Approach, 6th Edition, provides you with the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5 and patient problems, for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. This clinically-based guide offers quick and easy access to the latest psychiatric nursing care planning guidelines for a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Designed to accompany Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, the refreshed and updated edition is a perfect reference for learning to create psychiatric nursing care plans. A thoroughly revised patient centered assessment, including the DSM-5, supplies you with the latest diagnostic information available for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. The latest patient problems, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you up-to-date with the most current information. Care plans containing patient problems, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, and interventions and rationales provide guidance for supporting patients with a wide range of psychiatric alterations. Talk-based therapies covered and referred to in a dedicated chapter on psychotherapeutic models. Promising brain stimulation therapies are addressed in a separate chapter NEW! A separate sleep disorder chapter addresses alterations present in all psychiatric disorders. NEW! Updated medications equip you with the latest information on medications used with psychiatric patients. NEW! Updated, refreshed, and refined Manual improves overall design and reduces extraneous content to focus on essential clinical information.

This handy pocket guide is designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, the formulation of nursing diagnoses, and the design of psychiatric nursing care plans. The book contains practical, clinically oriented information students can carry with them as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. It is also an excellent resource for the new graduate and/or practicing nurse. Effectively covers all major disorders commonly encountered in the clinical setting. Includes assessment guidelines (with signs and symptoms), assessment tools, and questions nurses should ask clients for each disorder. Each care plan begins with a nursing diagnosis and includes Related To (Etiology), As Evidenced By (Assessment Findings/Diagnostic Cues), Outcome Criteria, Long-Term Goals, Short-Term Goals, and Interventions and Rationales. Integrates psychopharmacology information for each disorder. Features Client and Family Teaching boxes for easy reference and to ensure clear communication of the required care regiment. Nurse, Client, and Family Resources include website addresses, association information, and additional resources for client teaching material, medication information, and support groups. The new two-color design improves readability and overall design. Revised chapter design presents sections consistently and makes essential information easier to identify. Includes the most recent information in the field, including the DSM-IV-TR taxonomy and 2003-2004 NANDA nursing diagnoses. A new chapter, Major Psychotropic Interventions and Client/Family Teaching, provides coverage of psychopharmacology in addition to the content found in each disorder chapter. Drug tables in select chapters provide rapid access to psychotropic drug information. DSM-IV-TR headings highlight medical diagnosis. Revised and expanded client outcome sections include additional outcome criteria, long-term goals, and short-term goals for each diagnosis. Additional content on forensic issues in psychiatric nursing is integrated throughout where appropriate. Assessment tools are now grouped in Appendix D for easier reference. Assessment tools are referred to in the text where appropriate. A helpful appendix of drug monographs features the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications. Focuses on practical, clinical information for providing client care in the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. User-friendly format allows for quick and easy access to information.