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Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 6e

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This book provides standard information about mental health nursing care in an easy to read manner. However, the book and resource materials are poorly edited. Misspellings, blatant mistakes, and wrong answer keys are common. In one section of the online resources for the book, they refer to bupropion as generic Prozac, a mistake that if made in the field, would get the nurse's license taken.

For such a late edition of the book, it's unimaginable that this many mistakes exist!

What's worse, teachers taking questions from the test bank must be careful because the editing mistakes are frequent in there as well. It has been an endless frustration to my nursing class because my inexperienced professor is of the mindset that if it's in the test bank, it is right, even though many of the questions we received were clearly wrong or had more than one answer.

That being said, this book also has issues where information in one section of the chapter contradicts information appearing in another section. I believe this is due to the fact that multiple writers composed each chapter.

Hey editors:
- It's spelled "Rett Syndrome", not "Rhett's Disorder". And they do know what causes it. p639
- It's no longer considered appropriate to use a tongue blade on a seizing individual. Get this out of your book. p392
- The paragraph about Middle Eastern suicide bombers is racist and offensive, and doesn't really belong in a mental health nursing book. Keep your politics to yourself. p552
- "Cent-rally" is not supposed to be spelled with a hyphen. p328
- About half the questions on the resource CD are keyed wrong. Thanks again.
- and much much more.

Elizabeth Varcarolis/Elsevier could do well by hiring an editor or ten. I'd be embarrassed to have my name on such a sloppy book.

The book is well-organized for the most part, and easy to follow. The reading level is a little simple and conversational, so it's probably really intended for a basic intro to psych nursing -- the "advanced practice" sections could probably be left out, as anyone who is studying to be an advanced practice psych nurse would find this book too simplistic and without sufficient detail. The care plans at the end of each chapter are very good, as are the majority of tables and vignettes.

However...there are spelling mistakes, editing mistakes, and (as is almost always the case with Elsevier titles), problems with the practice questions and answers. I'm right now looking at chapter 17 (Cognitive Disorders) -- the chapter review question #5 (there are 5 per chapter) is an alternate-item "select all that apply" question, and the options are numbered 1-6; the answer key in the back of the book says the correct answers are "4,5,6,7." There is no "7." This sort of mistake, even in late editions, is exactly what I have come to be very frustrated with while using Elsevier/Mosby/Evolve materials. There are also several sentences with misspellings in words or letters missing or spaces in the middle of a word. This should not be the case in a 6th edition book. It's unprofessional and distracting.

I would like some rationales for the chapter review questions -- there's not much learning in not knowing why a certain answer is better than the others.

This book was a huge pain to have in my class. It is full of contradictions, and it is extremely poorly edited. If you are taking this class online, good luck. It you have a lecture for this class, listen well. The questions that come on the CD contradict the book and are extremely poorly edited. I really wish we had gone with a different book for this class.

Book is easy to read and informative.NOT one of those textbooks that is so inaccessible that it is torture to get through =-)

I ordered this book for my nursing class not realizing it was the wrong one untill class already started so I kept the product thinking it would be okay! I should not have recieved the wrong book in the first place but it is my fault I kept it! Now instead of getting $60.00 to sell the book back in the photo I am able to get $1.50 which makes me wonder if this person sold me the wrong one on purpose! So be verryy careful and check to make sure you get what you order!!!! Very Unsatisfied!

Order was promptly processed & sent within a week. The item detail said that the CD was included and when it arrived, there was no CD in the book.

Easy to read and understand. The book clearly describes many of the terminologies used in mental health which are unique and terms nursing students have not been exposed to before. Highly recommended!!!

I have not recieved the order. I have also emailed you about this and you never replied. I will soon claim my money if I wait another couple of days

I enjoy reading this textbook. It keeps the interest and it's broken down in an understandable way. It was a required book for me, but I do enjoy it. I found it cheapest here on Amazon and the shipping was extremely timely.

Two Thumbs Up! I purchased a used book and it's in great condition,the price was wonderful and I received it in a reasonable amount of time.