Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, Psychopharmacology

by Elizabeth M. Varcarolis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455740195
• ISBN13: 9781455740192
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.4" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

NOT just careplans - tons of useful info for psych class & beyond

This was required for my psych rotation and initially I almost didn't buy it (many classes have extra texts that you don't really need - I thought this might be one...) However, our professor emphasized that the psych dx in regular nursing care plan books aren't right & don't have all that pertain specifically to psych/mental health and lack correct interventions. As it turns out, I used this little book significantly more than I used the primary text for the class! It has info on the various psych drugs with indications & things to watch out for, info on appropriate communication styles when dealing with individuals displaying particular behaviours incl. therapeutic communication, descriptions of all the various defense mechanisms etc. It's really worth the $$$. This is one text I will keep beyond nursing school for easy reference to all things psych.

psyc nursing care plan book

great book, helps with psyc care plans a lot. Great price, cheaper than college bookstore.

NURSING STUDENTS

This book was very helpful...If you have the Mental Health book by Elizabeth Varcarolis 5th edition then this book is good to have. It helps with careplans and it has a lot of the psychiatric meds plus interventions. Example with Lithium; for Bipolar-you want to check serum lithium levels weekly/biweekly during therapy. It gives you interventions and nursing considerations for the drugs. So it does have a lot of information in it. Its small but it is a great book to have for Mental Health.

Great tool for better understand of psychiatric disorders

This was recommended to me by a classmate. It also was valuable when working on a focused care plan. I continue to go to it to emphasize what I had learned through readings and lectures.If psychatric nursing is not your forte, this will definetly help you out.

Excellent

Excellent resource for my altered mental health nursing course. Lots of information and easy to follow. I would recommend this as a supplement to any psych nursing course.