Clearly written, with comprehensive coverage of key topics, this 11th edition delivers what nursing students need to meet the challenges of health care today. Its evidence-based, holistic approach to focuses on both physiological and psychological disorders and addresses both the biological and behavioral components of mental illness.
"The impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic put a spotlight on psychiatric and mental health concerns in ways we could not even imagine just a few short years ago. The need for confident nurses -well-versed in assessment and intervention across a broad spectrum of mental health disorders -remains higher than ever. As it has been with each new edition of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, the goal of this eleventh edition is to bring to practicing nurses and nursing students the most up-to-date information related to neurobiology, psychopharmacology, and evidence-based nursing interventions. This edition includes changes associated with the latest (fifth) edition, text revision of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR)"--