Overview

This new addition to the Fast Facts series presents succinct, well organized information for nursing students, recent graduates, and experienced psychiatric nurses. Its format, which includes concise tables, clear examples, and a bullet-point Fast Facts in a Nutshell box, facilitates easy access to information for busy nurses.Chapters encompass emergency, inpatient, and community settings and cover signs and symptoms of common disorders, interventions including medications, legal and ethical issues, commonly used models of care, child and adolescent psychiatric nursing, and psychiatric emergencies. Each chapter also provides a list of patient and family resources.Key Features: Easy-to-find answers to important clinical questionsUp-to-date information on indications, side effects, nursing actions, and outcomes of the most commonly used psychotropic medicationsEssential lab and diagnostic testing information for common presenting issuesDetailed suicide risk assessmentEvidence-based interventions for difficult clinical behaviors such as hallucinations, delusions, cutting, and wandering

Full Product Details

9780826107954

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available