Psychiatric Nursing Diagnoses: A Comprehensive Manual of Mental Health Care

Psychiatric Nursing Diagnoses: A Comprehensive Manual of Mental Health Care
ISBN-10
0874347572
ISBN-13
9780874347579
Category
Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric & Mental Health
Pages
439
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Springhouse Corporation
Authors
Sheila M. Sparks, Cynthia M. Taylor, Janyce G. Dyer

Description

For 130 psychiatric nursing diagnoses, nurses find definition, assessment criteria, defining characteristics, associated medical diagnoses, patient outcomes, interventions with rationales, documentation, and evaluation criteria. Also included is a section on geriatric mental health. All care plans are organized alphabetically within life-cycle sections. A psychiatric diagnosis cross-reference allows nurses to find appropriate care plans with ease. Contents include an overview of the nursing process, adult psychiatric care, child and adolescent plans of care, geriatric plans of care, psychiatric disorders and their nursing diagnoses, psychotropic drugs, NANDA Taxonomy I revised, selected references, index.

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