Book, Psychiatric Nursing Evidence-Based Practice 9/21[LS]

Didactic and comprehensive, this best-seller offers students and nurses up-to-date information in the area of ​​psychiatric and mental health nursing. Its text, clear and objective, presents the most current terminology, interventions and techniques on the work of nursing professionals in this important field. Main features of this edition: Nursing diagnoses updated with the NANDA Definitions and Classifications of Nursing Diagnoses - I 2015-2017Communication exercises, which portray clinical scenarios that allow the student to practice communication skills with patientsInclusion of an unprecedented box, Real People, Real Stories, which features interviews carried out with patients, who talk about the experience of living with a mental disorder and their thoughts on important issues that nurses need to knowNew texts from Quality and Safety Education for Nurses – QSEN added strategically throughout the chaptersUnpublished content on motivational interviewing, the concept of emotional intelligence, RAISE (Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode) and issues of gender dysphoria and transsexualityUpdates and inclusions of new psychotropic drugsAdditional resources:Tables with topics for patient/family educationDescriptions of recent experimental studies, with implications for evidence-based nursing practiceAttribution of nursing diagnoses to patient behaviorsTaxonomy and diagnostic criteria derived from DSM-5 (2013)Boxes with definitions of fundamental conceptsComprehensive glossaryAnswers to review questions (Appendix A) and communication exercises (Appendix B)