Here’s the must-know information LPN/LVN students need to care for patients with mental health disorders where they’ll encounter them - in general patient care settings.
An easy-to-read, conversational writing style shows 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.
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I. Foundations for Mental Health Nursing
1. History of Mental Health Nursing
2. Basics of Communication
3. Ethics and Law
4. Developmental Psychology Throughout the Life Span
5. Sociocultural Influences on Mental Health
6. Nursing Process in Mental Health
7. Coping and Defense Mechanisms
8. Mental Health Treatments
9.Complementary and Alternative Treatment Modalities
II. Threats to Mental Health
10. Anxiety, Anxiety-Related, and Somatic Symptom Disorders
11. Depressive Disorders
12. Bipolar Disorders
13. Suicide
14. Personality Disorders
15. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
16. Neurocognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia
17. Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
18. Eating Disorders
III. Special Populations
19. Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Issues
20. Postpartum Issues in Mental Health
21. Aging Population
22. Victims of Abuse and Violence
Appendices
A. Answers and Rationales
B. Agencies That Help People Who Have Threats to Their Mental Health
C. Organizations That Support the Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse
D. Standards of Nursing Practice for LPNs/LVNs
E. Assigning Nursing Diagnoses to Client Behaviors
Glossary
Index
