Mental Health Nursing Care

For Fundamentals of Nursing, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, Psychosocial Nursing and Nursing Specialty LPN/LVN courses.

Part of the LPN/LVN specific series, this practical guide to applying the nursing process to the care of clients with psychiatric disorders and general clients with psychosocial issues teaches psychiatric-mental health nursing as it is really practiced by practical vocational nurses. Students are encouraged to develop empathy for clients and critical thinking skills to meet the challenges of client care.

Case studies, client examples and statements from clients in their own words help students understand psychiatric and psychosocial nursing practice. The book is written with the knowledge that not all LPN/LVN nursing students have the opportunity to have psychiatric nursing clinical experiences. All nurses will work with clients who have mental disorders or psychosocial needs.

Features include:

LPN-friendly writing style
Provides thorough and practical content. Motivates students to read and stay interested and provides more depth of coverage than other books. This book teaches the complex subject of mental health nursing simply, clearly, and fully, without being simple-minded, and while respecting students and clients.

Diagrams, illustrations, tables and boxes
Help students who are visual learners understand and retain more material.

Reality Check boxes
Contain quotes from actual clients with mental illness in their own words. Help students make a human connection with people affected by mental illness.

Culture Care boxes
Integrate cultural issues into appropriate areas. Provide students with pertinent cultural issues as they relate to mental disorders.

Critical thinking emphasized
Critical Thinking Care Maps provide brief case studies, assessment data and a nursing diagnosis. Instruct students to sort data, choose interventions, evaluate outcomes and chart the results.

Critical Self Check boxes
Help students develop insight about her/his own attitude and values related to mental illness and working with clients with mental disorders.

Consumer Empowerment Plans
Ready-for-copying templates for client teaching. Provide students with an organized teaching plan for use with the client at discharge.

Outcome identification
Presented in the nursing process section of each clinical chapter. Provide students with the desired outcomes for each client as part of the planning phase of the nursing process.

Psychobiology chapter
Gives a clear explanation of psychobiology, and psychopharmacology for the LPN/LVN student.

Case studies and client examples
Help students understand psychiatric and psychosocial nursing practice.

Caring Tips, Learning Outcomes, Key Terms and Key Points in each chapter
Provide students with words of wisdom, goals for each chapter and important terminology and concepts.

Learning fun
Learning About You! pages at end of units. Provide a relaxed way to gain insight and recall learned material.

Authors: Linda Eby and Nancy J. Brown
Published: June 2004
ISBN: 0-13-048751-1
432 Pages