Keltner's Psychiatric Nursing

Keltner's Psychiatric Nursing

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Gain the skills you need to provide safe and effective psychiatric nursing care! Keltner's Psychiatric Nursing, 9th Edition provides a solid foundation in the knowledge required to manage and care for patients with psychiatric disorders. It features a unique, three-pronged approach to psychothe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steele, Debbie (Author)
Other Authors: Keltner, Norman L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Missouri Mosby 2022
©2023
Edition:Ninth Edition
Subjects:
Mental Disorders > drug therapy
Psychotherapy > methods
Psychotropic Drugs > administration & dosage
Psychiatric Nursing
Nurse-Patient Relations
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Table of Contents:
  • Unit I. The basics. Me, meds, Milieu
  • Historical issues
  • Legal issues
  • Psychobiologic bases of behavior
  • Cultural issues
  • Spirituality issues
  • unit II. You : therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. Models for working with psychiatric patients
  • Learning to communicate professionally
  • Working with an individual patient
  • Working with groups of patients
  • Working with the family
  • unit III. Medication (Psychopharmacology). Introduction to psychotropic drugs
  • Antiparkinsonian drugs
  • Antipsychotic drugs
  • Antidepressant drugs
  • Antimanic drugs
  • Antianxiety drugs
  • Antidementia drugs
  • Alternative preparations and over-the-counter drugs
  • unit IV. Environment : Milieu management. Introduction to Milieu management
  • Variables affecting the therapeutic environment: violence and suicide
  • Therapeutic environment in various treatment settings
  • unit V. Putting it all together (Psychopathology). Introduction to psychopathology
  • Schizophrenia Spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Depressive disorders
  • Bipolar disorders
  • Anxiety-related, obsessive-compulsive, trauma- and stressor-related, somatic, and dissociative disorders
  • Neurocognitive disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Sexual disorders and gender dysphoria
  • Substance abuse disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • unit VI. Special populations. Survivors of violence and trauma
  • Children and adolescents
  • Older adults
  • Soldiers and veterans.

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