Fundamentals of Mental Health NursingThis text provides an overview of psychiatric illness and altered mental health, with emphasis on the psychiatric problems commonly seen in patients in nonpsychiatric care settings. It enables the LPN student to learn how to speak with patients, interpret their communication, assess and identify abnormal behaviors, and assist with expected treatment protocols. |
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History of Mental Health Nursing | 1 |
Basics of Communication | 5 |
Ethics and Law | 23 |
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abuse activities adolescent alcohol allow Alzheimer's disease Anorexia Anorexia Nervosa ANSWERS AND RATIONALES Antisocial Personality Disorder anxiety disorders assessment behavior modification BIBLIOGRAPHY blocks to therapeutic Borderline Personality Disorder Bulimia Nervosa CHAPTER child clinic Conversion Disorder crisis CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISES defense mechanisms Define delirium dementia Denial depression diagnosis dissociative disorders doctor document drugs eating disorders emotional Encourage feelings goal hallucinations hospital Identify nursing KEY CONCEPTS KEY TERMS Lithium Lithium carbonate LPN/LVN Manipulation medications Mental Health Nursing mental illness MPD/DID Multiple Personality Nurse Practice Act nurse's nursing intervention Nursing Process Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder P.O. Box patient's concern physical symptoms physician Primary gain RATIONALES FOR TEST relationship SAMPLE QUESTIONS Schizophrenia Shawna side effects situation somatoform disorders stress student SUGGESTED NURSING DIAGNOSES suicide SUPPORTIVE MATERIALS Susie talk teaching Tell the patient TEST BANK QUESTIONS therapeutic communication therapeutic response therapy treatment Videocassette