Psychiatric Nursing Diagnoses: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Care - Janyce G. G. Dyer - Paperback

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.Dyer, Janyce G. is the author of 'Psychiatric Nursing Diagnoses: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Care - Janyce G. G. Dyer - Paperback' with ISBN 9780874347579 and ISBN 0874347572.