Nursing - Indianapolis

The most beneficial method of preventing healthcare violence is de-escalation--using therapeutic communication and interventions to defuse emotional tension. This text provides tools and techniques to help nurses and other healthcare professionals manage aggressive behavior and foster a safer workplace.

Here's the must-know information LPN/LVN students need to care for patients with mental health disorders where they'll encounter them?in general patient care settings. An easy-to-read, conversational writing style shows you how to recognize and respond to the most important mental health issues. You'll also explore important communication techniques, ethical and legal issues, and alternative and complementary treatments. Coverage of nursing interventions, basic psychiatric nursing skills, and psychopharmacology prepares you for the NCLEX-PN® exam and clinical practice.

Complete and easy-to-use resource for developing practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. Also covers the safe prescription and administration of the latest psychotropic medications.

Provides a foundation in the diagnostic process by covering the underlying principles of diagnosis and treatment planning, and then applies this framework to the DSM-5 categories related to children and adolescents.

This psychiatric nursing text contains a wealth of descriptive psychiatric diagnoses, QSEN criteria, and NANDA-based care plans, case scenarios, evidence-based practice, patient and family education tips, drug summary lists, and complementary and alternative therapy approaches.

Comprehensive text for psychiatric mental health nursing. Its evidence-based, holistic approach to nursing practice focuses on both biological and behavioral components.

Complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients. Provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan and safe prescription and administration of psychotropic medications.

Provides evidence-based information and strategies for working with individuals with substance use disorders. Addresses often-undiagnosed psychiatric conditions which may accompany SUDs and the ethical considerations of working with affected patients and families.

In healthcare, patients'psychological trauma may manifest in odd, uncomfortable, or confusing behaviors. Nurses and healthcare workers must recognize that patients may be feeling unsafe or struggling with low self-esteem, anxiety, grief, loneliness, or depression born from trauma.

Provides essential information for clinical care. Contains the latest diagnostic information based on DSM-5 criteria.

Convenient, up-to-date reference for the diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment, and psychotherapeutic management of the full range of psychiatric disorders.

Features concrete strategies for establishing interpersonal relationships as the basis not only for working with the psychiatric patient population, but as a timeless foundation for all nursing practice.