Mental Health Nursing: The Nurse-patient JourneyIn addition to comprehensive coverage of all standard topics in psychiatric nursing, the New Edition of this groundbreaking text offers unparalleled insights into the human side of mental illness. It enables readers to empathize with psychiatric patients and treat them with dignity and understanding. A unique, holistic approach prepares readers to care for all of their patients' needs physical, psychological, social, and spiritual.This second edition contains new, one-of-a-kind appendices on patient/family teaching and spiritual interventions, clinical practice guidelines for home care, testimonials from mental health nurses in a full range of settings, new, full-color brain scan images that depict visible differences in the brains of patients with certain mental illnesses, and much more. |
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Pavlov ( 1928 ) formalized his observations of behaviors in dogs in a theory of classical conditioning . He observed that the dog salivated naturally whenever it was presented with food but did not have a similar reaction to the sound ...
Pavlov ( 1928 ) formalized his observations of behaviors in dogs in a theory of classical conditioning . He observed that the dog salivated naturally whenever it was presented with food but did not have a similar reaction to the sound ...
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Clinical observations made in the 1960s led to formulation of the monoamine hypothesis of depression , which asserts that depression is caused by a functional insufficiency of monoamine neurotransmitters ( norepinephrine , serotonin ...
Clinical observations made in the 1960s led to formulation of the monoamine hypothesis of depression , which asserts that depression is caused by a functional insufficiency of monoamine neurotransmitters ( norepinephrine , serotonin ...
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The certified specialist was concerned that Loren was beginning to exhibit subtle signs and symptoms of impending illness and reported her observations to the treatment team at Loren's outpatient program . Two days after the last home ...
The certified specialist was concerned that Loren was beginning to exhibit subtle signs and symptoms of impending illness and reported her observations to the treatment team at Loren's outpatient program . Two days after the last home ...
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Background for | 1 |
Stigma | 41 |
Practice Roles and Settings | 55 |
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