Mental status examination is a description of the patient’s appearance, speech, actions & thoughts during the interview. It is a systematic format for recording finding about, thinking & behaviour patient history remains stable, where the mental status can change daily or hours. DEFINITION: A mental status examination is an assessment of a patient’s level of cognitive (knowledge-related) ability, appearance, emotional mood, &speech, thought patterns at the time of evaluation.
For 130 psychiatric nursing diagnoses, nurses find definition, assessment criteria, defining characteristics, associated medical diagnoses, patient outcomes, interventions with rationales, documentation, and evaluation criteria. Also included is a section on geriatric mental health. All care plans are organized alphabetically within life-cycle sections. A psychiatric diagnosis cross-reference allows nurses to find appropriate care plans with ease. Contents include an overview of the nursing process, adult psychiatric care, child and adolescent plans of care, geriatric plans of care, psychiatric disorders and their nursing diagnoses, psychotropic drugs, NANDA Taxonomy I revised, selected references, index.
Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Skills guides nursing students and practicing nurses towards enhancing fundamental psychiatric nursing skills competency in specific assessment and interventions for the selected psychiatric disorders. A nursing skill book in a manual format, this text is handy at the clinical site and encourages readers to translate their theoretical knowledge and psychiatric nursing skills into clinical practice. Topics include therapeutic communication techniques, assessment and interventions for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and suicide attempts, and crisis management skills for psychiatric emergencies. Included in the appendices are essential insights into ego defense mechanisms, Erickson’s Psychosocial Developmental Stages, Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development, and Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development.
A thoughtful, portable clinical companion, Varcarolis' Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: An Interprofessional Approach, 6th Edition, provides you with the latest diagnostic information available, including the DSM-5 and patient problems, for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. This clinically-based guide offers quick and easy access to the latest psychiatric nursing care planning guidelines for a range of settings including the inpatient unit, home care, or community mental health setting. Designed to accompany Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, the refreshed and updated edition is a perfect reference for learning to create psychiatric nursing care plans. A thoroughly revised patient centered assessment, including the DSM-5, supplies you with the latest diagnostic information available for accurate assessment and diagnosis of patients. The latest patient problems, assessment and treatment strategies, and psychotropic drug information keep you up-to-date with the most current information. Care plans containing patient problems, etiology, assessment findings/diagnostic cues, outcome criteria, long- and short-term goals, and interventions and rationales offer plans of care for a wide range of psychiatric nursing diagnoses. Talk-based therapies covered and referred to in a dedicated chapter on psychotherapeutic models. Promising brain stimulation therapies are addressed in a separate chapter NEW! A separate sleep disorder chapter addresses alterations present in all psychiatric disorders. NEW! Updated medications equip you with the latest information on medications used with psychiatric patients. NEW! Updated, refreshed, and refined Manual improves overall design and reduces extraneous content to focus on essential clinical information.
Manual of Nursing Procedures and Practice will guide nurses in a variety of settings to provide expertise and efficient patient care. It will also be an iconic resource in coaching and mentoring the novice and practicing nurses to build their competence and confidence.
Lippincott Nursing Procedures, 7e, is a start-to-finish guide to more than 400 nursing procedures--from basic to advanced. This reference outlines every procedure, lists equipment, details each step, and includes rationales and cautions to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes. Concise, clear content targets key information needed to perform nursing procedures safely and accurately at the bedside. Tips, alerts, checklists, illustrations, and tables provide clarity and quick access to key procedural information. Organized alphabetically for easy accessibility, the book includes basic and advanced procedures on key topics, including infection control, specimen collection, physical treatments, drug administration, IV therapy, and hemodynamic monitoring, as well as procedures related to body systems such as chest tubes, peripheral nerve stimulation, and intra-abdominal pressure monitoring.
Oxygen therapy administration is a fundamental aspect of nursing care aimed at providing supplemental oxygen to patients experiencing respiratory distress or inadequate oxygenation. As an essential component in managing various health conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, or acute respiratory failure, nurses play a pivotal role in assessing, implementing, and monitoring the delivery of oxygen therapy. In all health care settings, assessing patient health is a deliberate and ongoing effort. The importance of routine health assessment has increased along with the emphasis on prevention. The choice of therapies the client receives and the assessment of how well those therapies work depend on how accurately the nurse's assessment. When the nurse conducts ongoing goals and thorough assessments, the continuity of the patient's medical care improves. Palpation is an assessment technique in which the examiner feels with his/her fingers and one or both hands. Skill and gentleness are important. It reveals any swelling, coldness, hotness, stiffness, hardness, smoothness, roughness, pain, vibration, firmness and flaccidity. The following points are to be kept in mind while doing palpation:
The student edition of The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has been the definitive, market-leading textbook of clinical nursing skills for fifteen years. This internationally best-selling title sets the gold standard for nursing care, providing the procedures, rationale, and guidance required by pre-registration students to deliver clinically effective, patient-focused care with expertise and confidence. With over two-hundred detailed procedures which reflect the skills required to meet The Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses (NMC 2019), this comprehensive manual presents the evidence and underlying theory alongside full-colour illustrations and a range of learning activities designed to support student nurses in clinical practice. Loved and trusted by millions, The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures, Student Edition continues to be a truly indispensable textbook for students, and includes coverage of patient assessment and discharge planning, communication, infection prevention and control, perioperative care, wound management, nutrition, diagnostic testing, medicines management, and much more. Learning features in this revised tenth edition include: Learning outcomes – summarise the focus of the information in each chapter Learning in practice – asks you to consider issues within your practice environment Case studies – provide learning around a particular patient scenario Clinical applications – ask you to consider how you would apply your knowledge to a clinical situation Stretch activities – challenge you with more nuanced, advanced issues to reflect upon Many of the features in the book are relevant to trainee nursing associates, especially when used in conjunction with supervision from academic and clinical teachers. A companion website to this title is available at www.royalmarsdenmanual.com/student10e
