Essential Guide for LPN/LVN Students: Mental Health Care in General Patient Care Settings

By Robynn Gorman, Linda M.; Anwar

This comprehensive guide provides the must-know information for LPN/LVN students to care for patients with mental health disorders in general patient care settings. It uses an easy-to-read, conversational writing style to show you how to recognize and respond to the most important mental health issues. You’ll also explore important communication techniques, ethical and legal issues, and alternative and complementary treatments.

Coverage of nursing interventions, basic psychiatric nursing skills, and psychopharmacology prepares you for the NCLEX-PN exam and clinical practice. This guide is better than the mental health chapter from a typical textbook, providing everything you need to learn about mental health.

LPN/LVN Connections

A consistent, LPN/LVN-focused approach to design, organization, and features makes F.A. Davis texts easier for students and instructors to use across the curriculum.

Updated Content

The latest knowledge and practices in the field, including revisions from the DSM-5-TR 2022, are included in this guide. New and updated content covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression, the opioid crisis, and mental illness in the homeless and veteran populations, and systemic racism in health care.

Key Features

Full-color illustrations, tables, bulleted lists, and a reader-friendly writing style make concepts easy to understand. Focus on the new, NCLEX-PN test plan, coverage of mental health conditions across the lifespan, care plans with detailed descriptions of specific interventions and expected outcomes, and content on specific nursing interventions and basic psychiatric nursing skills are just a few of the key features.

Coverage of psychopharmacology, including must-know side effects, case studies with critical-thinking questions to emphasize clinical-reasoning skills, crucial information on palliative and restorative care for long-term care settings, and discussions on alternative treatment modalities to facilitate communications with people of different religious and cultural backgrounds are also included.

Product Details

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; Sixth edition (September 27, 2022)
Language: English
Pages: 408
ISBN-10: 1719645604
ISBN-13: 978-1719645607
Reading Age: 1 year and up