Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Success: A Q&A Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking / Edition 2

by Cathy Melfi Curtis, Audra Baker, Carol Norton Tuzo

Overview

2 Books in 1!

- Q&A Course Review

- NCLEX® prep

Assure your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while improving your critical-thinking and test-taking skills.

Over 900 multiple-choice and alternate format questions, organized by specific disorders, make a difficult subject more manageable. Rationales for both correct and incorrect answers as well as test-taking tips help you critically analyze the question types.

BONUS! Two, 75-question exams online at DavisPlus—look inside the book for your FREE Plus Code to gain access!

Thoroughly updated and enhanced, the 2nd Edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year offers an increased emphasis on alternate-item format questions, including fill-in-the-blank, select-all-that-apply, and ordered response.

What students are saying...

“The questions are very similar to our tests and this book explains it way better than the textbook.”

– Nancy, Bryan College of Health Sciences, NE

Use this exceptional resource with your current textbook for additional practice questions. It’s the ideal companion to Mary C. Townsend’s psychiatric nursing texts—each title follows the same organization as Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Success, 2nd Edition for the ideal teaching and learning experience.

Check them out today...

Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

What instructors are saying about the Success Series:

”We have used your products for students to help increase critical thinking skills, prepare for NCLEX and course exams, and for review of nursing content. We recommend students purchase the Success Series and review the content and questions for remediation and to enhance nursing knowledge. The terminology at the beginning of each chapter provide key terms for the students to review before answering questions. The books are all encompassing in regards to what students need to review across the curriculum. We love them!!”

– Louise Outlaw, Instructor at Brown Mackie College, St.Louis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803629813
Publisher:	F. A. Davis Company
Publication date:	01/25/2013
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

1. Basic Concepts in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
   
   1. Mental Health/Mental Illness: Theoretical Concepts
   2. Psychiatric Nursing
   3. Communication
   4. Legal and Ethical Considerations
   5. Stress Adaptation Throughout the Lifespan
   
   
   
   
2. Management of Care for Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders
   
   1. Anxiety and Sleep Disorders
   2. Psychophysiological and Somatoform Disorders
   3. Delirium, Dementia, HIV, and Amnestic Disorders
   4. Eating Disorders
   5. Personality, Impulse Control and Adjustment Disorders
   6. Dissociative and Sexual/Gender Identity Disorders
   7. Substance-Related Disorders
   8. Schizophrenia and Other Thought Disorders
   9. Mood Disorders: Depression
   10. Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorders
   11. Child and Adolescent Disorders
   12. Comprehensive Final Examination
   
   
   
   

Glossary of English Words Commonly Encountered on Nursing Examinations

Index