Manual Of Psychiatric Nursing Skills

Sudha C. Patel, Kim A. Jakopac (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

544 Seiten

2011
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4496-1356-3 (ISBN)

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Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Skills guides nursing students and practicing nurses towards enhancing fundamental psychiatric nursing skills competency in specific assessment and interventions for the selected psychiatric disorders. A nursing skill book in a manual format, this text is handy at the clinical site and encourages readers to translate their theoretical knowledge and psychiatric nursing skills into clinical practice. Topics include therapeutic communication techniques, assessment and interventions for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and suicide attempts, and crisis management skills for psychiatric emergencies. Included in the appendices are essential insights into ego defense mechanisms, Erickson’s Psychosocial Developmental Stages, Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development, and Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development.

Sudha C. Patel, RN, BSN, MN, MA, DNS. As an Associate Professor,currently involved in teaching psychiatric/mental health nursing in the Master’s program for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and generic nursing students in the BSN program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Also instructed accelerated option students for 5 years in psychiatric/mental health nursing education and have practiced since 1979 including in both Diploma and undergraduate nursing programs in the USA.Experience, in addition to being a faculty member, has been working with a wide range of clients with psychiatric disorders from children to the elderly as well as working with substance abuse and dual diagnosis clients. Also has a community health nursing specialty. Have done presentations both Podium and posters of research studies at several local, regional, and national conferences in the USA. Have presented internationally in Australia, Russia, and China.Publications to date include collaborative projects, textbooks chapters, and a textbook “Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Case Studies and Care Plans”. Kim A. Jakopac RN, ASN, BSN, MSN, PPCNP Currentlyteaching psychiatric/mental health nursing in a BSN program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.Specialty is psychiatric/mental health nursing and medical/psychiatric nursing.Over the past 17 yearsshe has worked with a variety of clients ranging from children to the elderly. She has experience working with substance abuse clients, dual diagnosis clients and case management.She conducted psychiatric/mental health and substance abuse evaluations in an emergency room setting and have worked as a hospital supervisor. The last 6 years of her nursing career have been in education.Publications to date include the book “Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Case Studies and Care Plans”, research reviews (see CV) and completed a literature review for Dr. Sudah Patel and Dr. Ardith Sudduth on the healthy behaviors of freshman nursing students.She has been involved in research with Dr. Ardith Sudduth, Dr. Evelyn Wills, and Dr. Ina Koerner. She also had a podium presentation in Alexandria, LA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2011
Verlagsort	Sudbury
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	851 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
Themenwelt	Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Neurologie / Psychiatrie
ISBN-10	1-4496-1356-X / 144961356X
ISBN-13	978-1-4496-1356-3 / 9781449613563
Zustand	Neuware