Springhouse Review for Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Certification



This comprehensive review book includes all the information needed to confidently pass the psychiatric and mental health nursing certification exam. For each psychiatric disorder, the text provides causes, signs and symptoms, nursing diagnoses, and nursing interventions. Presented in a clear outline format, the book also contains quick-reference charts, appendices, selected references, and a posttest in the same format as the actual exam. Each chapter includes a clinical situation that follows the nursing process format, with rationales for every intervention. The book also covers such key top. �Read more... 
Abstract: This comprehensive review book includes all the information needed to confidently pass the psychiatric and mental health nursing certification exam. For each psychiatric disorder, the text provides causes, signs and symptoms, nursing diagnoses, and nursing interventions. Presented in a clear outline format, the book also contains quick-reference charts, appendices, selected references, and a posttest in the same format as the actual exam. Each chapter includes a clinical situation that follows the nursing process format, with rationales for every intervention. The book also covers such key top
Table of contents : 
Content: Contributors
Foreword
Certification examination
Fundamental concepts
Human development
Settings, roles, and scope of practice
Theoretical models of behavior
Nursing research
Therapeutic communication
Legal aspects of nursing practice
Anxiety disorders
Substance use disorders
Adjustment disorders
Dissociative disorders
Mood disorders
Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorders
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia
Somatoform disorders
Psychiatric therapies
Psychopharmacology
Appendix A Standards of psychiatric and mentalhealth clinical nursing practice Appendix BNANDA Taxonomy IIPosttest
Selected references
Index