Psychiatric Nursing: Promoting Mental Health [Hardcover]

Ann Wolbert Burgess (Editor)

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Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0838580874 | ISBN-13: 978-0838580875 | Edition: 1st

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Textbook on mental health care, for undergraduate nursing students. Discusses the use of neurobiological, behavioral, and social science theories and research in patient care. 33 contributors, 32 U.S. DNLM: Mental Disorders - nursing.

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Key Benefit: Addressing contemporary mental health issues facing psychiatric nursing today as well as traditional clinical skills, this state-of-the-art new text helps prepare nurses for the realities of primary health care. Key Topics: Based on developmental crisis theory, this valuable reference links stress, trauma, and behavioral health problems to neurobiological function and the immune system depletion. A thorough overview of other nursing models is also provided to aid in understanding how several nursing models and system theories are used today. Market: Nursing students, nurse practitioners, nurses.

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Hardcover: 856 pages
Publisher: Appleton & Lange; 1st edition (January 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0838580874
ISBN-13: 978-0838580875
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.8 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,557,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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