Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Guide to Diagnoses, Care Plans, and Medications

By Karyn I. Morgan RN MSN APRN-CNS

This comprehensive guide is a valuable resource for nursing students and professionals alike, providing essential information on diagnostic care plans and the safe administration of psychotropic medications. The book is divided into two parts, with the first half focusing on diagnostic information and the second half covering medication management.

Key Features

The guide includes:

• Updated information reflecting the taxonomy and diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5-TR and Nursing diagnoses current with the NANDA-I 2021-2023 Nursing Diagnoses Definitions and Classifications.
• Expanded and updated section on psychotropic medications, including new medications available since the last edition and the deletion of discontinued medications.
• Clinical Pearl boxes that highlight must-know information and interventions for diagnoses.
• Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers.
• Organization by DSM-V-TR and NANDA diagnoses for easy reference.
• Helpful rating scales in the appendices, including the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale, and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.
• Nursing diagnoses and interventions that include the definition, possible etiologies (“Related to …”), defining characteristics (“Evidenced by …”), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria.
• Background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions commonly associated with each psychiatric disorder.
• A unit on psychotropic drug classifications covering anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian and tardive dyskinesia drugs, sedative hypnotics, and agents used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
• Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications.
• Communication interventions in the care plans that reinforce the emphasis on therapeutic communication.

Reviews

Readers have praised this guide for its practicality and usefulness in clinical settings:

“I used this daily during my psych rotation and it’ll remain on my shelf for future reference. Great must have!” – Sarah, Online Reviewer

“Super useful for nursing diagnoses and concept maps that were required. Has ‘evidenced by’, ‘goals’, ‘interventions’ and ‘outcomes’ — plus describes all the different conditions! I want one for all my rotations!” – Elle, Online Reviewer

Publication Details

Published by F.A. Davis Company, this twelfth edition was released on October 2, 2023. The book is available in English and consists of 736 pages. The ISBN-10 is 1719648506, and the ISBN-13 is 978-1719648509.