Varcarolis' Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: An Interprofessional Approach

A thoughtful, portable clinical companion, Varcarolis’ Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: An Interprofessional Approach, 6th Edition, provides you with the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5 and patient problems, for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. This clinically-based guide offers quick and easy access to the latest psychiatric nursing care planning guidelines for a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Designed to accompany Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, the refreshed and updated edition is a perfect reference for learning to create psychiatric nursing care plans.

• A thoroughly revised patient centered assessment, including the DSM-5, supplies you with the latest diagnostic information available for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients.
• The latest patient problems, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you up-to-date with the most current information.
• Care plans containing patient problems, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, and interventions and rationales provide guidance for supporting patients with a wide range of psychiatric alterations.
• Talk-based therapies covered and referred to in a dedicated chapter on psychotherapeutic models.
• Promising brain stimulation therapies are addressed in a separate chapter

• NEW! A separate sleep disorder chapter addresses alterations present in all psychiatric disorders.
• NEW! Updated medications equip you with the latest information on medications used with psychiatric patients.
• NEW! Updated, refreshed, and refined Manual improves overall design and reduces extraneous content to focus on essential clinical information.