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 | | Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (Varcarolis, Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans) by Elizabeth M. Varcarolis RN MA ISBN-10: 9781416029168 ISBN-10: 1-4160-2916-8 ISBN-13: 9781416029168 ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-2916-8 Paperback 2005-12-28 Saunders Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This pocket-sized clinical companion is designed to assist in the assessment of psychiatric nursing clients, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of psychiatric nursing care plans. It provides quick and easy access to the detailed and concrete information students need to know as they visit the inpatient unit, community mental health setting, or home care setting. The content is clinically based, rather than theory based. This avoids repetition of material that students already have in their mental health nursing textbooks and makes it a perfect reference for clinical use.
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Psych Care Plan Book This book has been helpful in completing care plans for my psychosocial clinical rotation. As any nursing student knows, care plans are long papers that must be completed in order to receive a grade, since psych is newer to me than med-surg it is helpful to have a book to aid in the completion of these care plans. | ||
Very easy-to-read text book I love this text. It's very user friendly. You get the need-to-know information in a style that's easy to read and understand. I actually look forward to reading my assigned chapters! | ||
NOT just careplans - tons of useful info for psych class & beyond This was required for my psych rotation and initially I almost didn't buy it (many classes have extra texts that you don't really need - I thought this might be one...) However, our professor emphasized that the psych dx in regular nursing care plan books aren't right & don't have all that pertain specifically to psych/mental health and lack correct interventions. As it turns out, I used this little book significantly more than I used the primary text for the class! It has info on the various psych drugs with indications & things to watch out for, info on appropriate communication styles when dealing with individuals displaying particular behaviours incl. therapeutic communication, descriptions of all the various defense mechanisms etc. It's really worth the $$$. This is one text I will keep beyond nursing school for easy reference to all things psych. | ||
psyc nursing care plan book great book, helps with psyc care plans a lot. Great price, cheaper than college bookstore. | ||
NURSING STUDENTS This book was very helpful...If you have the Mental Health book by Elizabeth Varcarolis 5th edition then this book is good to have. It helps with careplans and it has a lot of the psychiatric meds plus interventions. Example with Lithium; for Bipolar-you want to check serum lithium levels weekly/biweekly during therapy. It gives you interventions and nursing considerations for the drugs. So it does have a lot of information in it. Its small but it is a great book to have for Mental Health. | ||