Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))

By Mary Ann Boyd and Rebecca Ann Luebbert

Book Overview

Mary Ann Boyd's Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice 6th edition is a comprehensive approach to psychiatric mental health nursing. Dr. Boyd revised the sixth edition to prepare nursing leaders who challenge the status quo, partner with their patients in the delivery of care, and use the latest evidence in their nursing practice.

The sixth edition has an emphasis on the recovery-interventions and wellness, with coverage of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents and older adults. The text presents complex concepts in easy-to-understand language with multiple examples and explanations.

Special features include threaded case studies that are mapped to the chapter's nursing care plans, therapeutic dialogue. In addition, new sections emphasizing wellness and primary care integration will be added along with the retention of popular features such as Clinical Vignettes and NCLEX Notes.

The sixth edition includes access to the online video series, Lippincott Theory to Practice Video Series: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, available in the Student and Instructor Resources. These videos display mental health disorders, allowing students to gain experience and a deeper understanding of mental health patients.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451192436
• ISBN13: 9781451192438
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: LWW
• Length: 888 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Required for class

This book was required for class for psych. The book is easy to read however, it unfortunate that it does not contain testing questions after each chapter. The test questions that are available are only on the cd, which does not focus on the chapters but the only the main topics of pschy such as dementia. It would've been better if it had for each chapter. -_-

Well written and to the point.

This text deals with the major topics of mental health nursing in a direct and very readable manner.

good psych book

This book is very well written - it explains the various psych issues and disorders in an easy to read, easy to understand format. It reviews psych medications as well as psych issues related to children and adolescents. The book comes with a CD that has some nclex type questions, but ideally it would have more questions on it (thats why I only gave it 4 stars).