Mental Health Nursing: Reviews & Rationales [Paperback]

Mary Ann Hogan (Author), George Byron Smith (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130304581 | ISBN-13: 978-0130304582 | Publication Date: March 14, 2002

For course review on a specific topic, e.g., psychiatric nursing, review for NCLEX-RN, and review for specialty training. This resource provides a core content review of the subject in outline format. Each chapter opens with a brief outline, objectives, key terms with definitions, media box with summary of CD and CW content, as well as a pre-test. The pre-test and post-test guide the student through a self-paced review. Other features unique to this resource help further enhance the review process.

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From the Back Cover

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of mental health nursing. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering therapeutic communication, developmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, cognitive mental disorders, substance abuse, crisis intervention and suicide, death and dying, and much more. Each chapter provides the following tools that will help lead you to success in your course and on the NCLEX-RN:

• Chapter Objectives
• Pre- and post-chapter tests with comprehensive rationales
• Vocabulary review
• Practice-to-Pass exercises
• Critical thinking case studies
• NCLEX alerts

Enhance your review with the Nursing Review & Rationales' with the free CD-ROM and Companion Website. These additional tools feature even more detailed explanations of difficult concepts and visuals, interactive practice exercises and NCLEX-RN questions, audio glossaries, and more related resources.

About the Series
Prentice Hall's Nursing Review & Rationales Series is the complete foundation for success both within the classroom and on the NCLEX-RN. Each volume offers a concentrated review of core content from across the nursing curriculum, while providing hundreds of practice questions and comprehensive rationales. The only review series with an integrated technology package, each book offers a free corresponding CD-ROM and Companion Website. The complete series includes books for:

• Nursing Fundamentals
• Child Health Nursing
• Fluid, Electrolyte, & Acid-Base Balance
• Maternal-Newborn Nursing
• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Mental Health Nursing
• Nutrition & Diet Therapy
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology

About the Author

Mary Ann Hogan, RN, CS, MSN has been a nurse educator for 20 years, currently as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs. A former item writer for the CAT NCLEX-RN, Ms. Hogan has been teaching NCLEX-RN review courses throughout New England for the last 14 years. She has also contributed to a number of publications in the areas of adult health and fundamentals of nursing. Ms. Hogan is an ANCC-certified clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau.

George Byron Smith, ARNP, MSN, PhD(C) teaches and mentors nursing students in the areas of mental health and psychiatric nursing, as well as, fundamentals, pharmacology, neurological disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and sensory disorders at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida. He is certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse and as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner. Mr. Smith has over 10 years experience in psychiatric-mental health nursing, and has served as Secretary of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), as well as president and president-elect of the Florida Chapter of APNA.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 323 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (March 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130304581
• ISBN-13: 978-0130304582
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #687,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book saved me:-), May 14, 2007

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Steffie B (East Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

As much as I love my psych text book, I found this book to be very helpful as a Cliff Notes-type supplement. It is concise and easy to read, and the CD that goes along with it works in my Mac and is totally awesome! You can go through pre and post test questions on line, just like within the chapters, as well as check out some NCLEX stuff. All of this was very helpful for exams and just plain learning.

Love it and highly recommend it for supplementing your studies!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Study Aid!, April 27, 2009

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This review is from: Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I love the Reviews and Rationales series of books and highly recommend them for all nursing students. After I go through my notes from class and the textbook, I use this book for review. It helps sum up all of the millions of pieces of information I have assimilated into one concise source. The review questions have proven to be extremely helpful in studying for exams as well. Similiar content questions have even appeared on our nursing school exams! I love the fact that they give you the rationale behind the answer and tell you how to reason your way to the answer if you are unsure. Each chapter has 20 questions, and then there are 30 more for each chapter on the enclosed CD. They are great for NCLEX prep.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mental Health Nursing Reviews and Rationales, March 8, 2008

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C. Veres (Hollywood, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I used this book for test reviews although I wish they had put more questions in it, I found that the rationales helped a great deal when figuring out what I got wrong and why I got it wrong. I would recommend this book to any nursing student that was doing the Psy rotations as a good test study aid.