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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156235803321

Autore

Curtis Catherine Melfi

Titolo

Psychiatric mental health nursing success : a Q & A review applying critical thinking to test taking / / Catherine Melfi Curtis, Audra Baker Fegley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : F. A. Davis, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8036-6693-4

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

610.7368076

Soggetti

Psychiatric nursing

National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Mental health/mental illness : theoretical concepts -- Psychiatric nursing -- Communication -- Legal and ethical considerations -- Stress adaptation, trauma, and related disorders -- Anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and related disorders, issues related to sexuality -- Depressive disorders and the suicidal client -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Substance-use and addictive disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Personality disorders and impulse control disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Eating disorders -- Children and adolescents -- Comprehensive final examination.

Sommario/riassunto

Guarantee your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while honing your critical-thinking and test-taking skills. Over 900 multiple-choice and alternate format questions, organized by specific disorders, make a difficult subject more manageable. Rationales for both correct and incorrect answers as well as test-taking tips help you to critically analyze the question types. Plus, two, 75-question exams online at DavisPlus help you assess your overall progress. Thoroughly updated and enhanced throughout, the 3rd Edition of this AJN Book of the Year incorporates DSM V and even more of the most difficult alternate-format questions.--Provided by publisher.