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For undergraduate courses in Mental Health Nursing.

Written in a student-friendly style, this comprehensive text, and leading resource in the field of mental health nursing, emphasizes effective communication skills, details cultural considerations, and presents mental health disorders within a systematic organizational framework using the nursing process. It reflects the diversity of its student readers, and the belief that the practice of mental health nursing is in direct response to the social, cultural, environmental, and biological components of mental illness.

Hallmark Characteristics:

• Based on the competency model, focusing on client’s resourcefulness and capacity to grow and change.
• Emphasis on developing healthy communication skills
• Focused Assessment feature aids students in learning the type and range of assessment questions to ask particular clients
• Clinical Interactions feature help students develop therapeutic communication skills
• Vignettes provide first-person accounts to help students understand the experience of disorders
• Complementary and Alternative Care features

New for 6e:

• Interactive ROAD feature uses first-person accounts of individuals with disorders in text and video, instructing students to:

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            Observe the video

            Assess the client

            Develop a care plan

• New Terrorism and Disaster chapter
• New Sexual Identity and Gender chapter
• Nursing care plans in table format
• Using Research Evidence feature invites students to evaluate the research base for nursing practice.
• Focus Your Study feature appears at the end of every chapter to summarize key concepts and links them to learning objectives.
• Expanded DSM-IV-TR content
• NCLEX-RN^®-style questions at the end of each chapter

Unit I              Foundations of Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 1                    Introduction to Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 2                    The Family in Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 3                    The Community in Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 4                    The Role of Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Nursing

Chapter 5                    Legal and Ethical Issues

Chapter 6                    Neurobiology and Behavior

Unit II             Illness Management and Recovery

Chapter 7                    Illness Management: Communication and Psychoeducation

Chapter 8                    Illness Management: Common Clinical Behaviors

Chapter 9                    Illness Management: Treatment Decisions

Chapter 10                  Illness Management: Medications

Unit III           Mental Disorders

Chapter 11                  Anxiety, Dissociative, and Somatoform Disorders

Chapter 12                  Eating Disorders

Chapter 13                  Mood Disorders

Chapter 14                  Schizophrenic Disorders

Chapter 15                  Substance-Related Disorders

Chapter 16                  Personality Disorders

Chapter 17                  Disorders of Children and Adolescents

Chapter 18                  Gender Identity and Sexual Disorders

Unit IV           Neurobehavioral Disorders

Chapter 19                  Cognitive Impairment Disorders

Chapter 20                  Neuropsychiatric Problems

Unit V             Violence

Chapter 21                  Suicide

Chapter 22                  Interpersonal Violence

Chapter 23                  Sexual Violence

Chapter 24                  Community Violence

Chapter 25                  Nursing Management of the Problems Associated With Exposure to Natural Disasters and Terrorism

Mental Health Nursing  [CORE TEXTS]   (RN)

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Karen Lee Fontaine received her bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, a nursing degree from Luthern Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and her master's degree in psychiatric nursing from Rush University, Chicago, Illinois. Karen is currently a Professor of Nursing at Purdue University Calumet, where she has been teaching for 20 years. She is also a certified sex therapist and maintains a private practice counseling individuals and couples.

Karen's publishing awards include the AJN Book of the Year Award 2000 for her text entitled Healing Practices: Alternative Therapies for Nursing, Prentice Hall, and the Annual Nursing Book Review, Sigma Theta Tau 2000 for Mental Health Nursing 4e, Addison Wesley. Karen's distinguishing academic honors include the Luther Christman Excellence in Published Writing Award, Gamma Phi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, in 1997 and Distinguished Lecturer 1994-1995 from Sigma Theta Tau, International.

Karen is a frequent presenter at national and regional seminars covering psychiatric-mental health nursing practice, alternative therapies, sexuality, and sex therapy. She is a member of several professional associations, which include the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Karen has also served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy since 2000.

Karen lives on a sand dune in Miller Beach with her soul mate, Al, and their Greater Swiss Mountain dog, Whitney. She has three children, jean-Marc, Simone and Marcel, and three grandchildren, Danielle, Christopher, and Jaycee. Karen enjoys spending time with her family, art, reading, walking on the beach, and throwing "Goddess" parties with her friends.

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  Mental Health Nursing, CourseSmart eTextbook, 6/E
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  Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children and Families, 2/E
  Ball, Bindler & Cowen
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1776 pp | Instock
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  For use in Pediatric Nursing courses.

   

  Partnership!  Continues to be the foundation for this second edition, comprehensive and student-friendly pediatric nursing text. Child-Health Nursing: Partnering with Children and Families 2e reflects the core value of family-centered care.  Recognizing the family as the central influence in each child’s life and respect for families of all cultures, continues to make this text a first in its class!

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  Community Health Nursing: Advocacy for Population Health, 5/E
  Clark
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  For undergraduate courses in Community Health Nursing.

   

  The community/public health nurse is charged with promoting the health of populations, not only the individuals within populations.  This requires advocacy on the part of the nurse, for entire communities as well as for the individuals within.  The fifth edition of Community Health Nursing by respected leader and educator Mary Jo Clark approaches community health nursing from an aggregate perspective, clearly showing how nurses can serve to improve the health of populations within a community by functioning as advocates on many levels.  To illustrate how that can be manifested, real-life vignettes begin every chapter, showing students what advocacy looks like in the public health context.  In each chapter, critical thinking exercises are woven throughout in boxed features.

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  Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 7/E
  Ladewig, London & Davidson
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 1008 pp | Instock
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  Together, pregnancy and childbirth are a normal life process — a process in which the entire family has a vital role to play. This philosophy has shaped Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care through 7 editions, and continues to serve as a guiding theme. With a strong focus on community based nursing and client education, this text emphasizes the importance of collaboration between nurses and childbearing families. It is the foremost goal of this book to inspire nursing students to become expert caregivers and to teach them that working with childbearing families requires a combination of knowledge, intuition, and technical skills.

   

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  Contemporary Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, 2/E
  Kneisl & Trigoboff
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 1024 pp | Instock
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  For undergraduate courses in Psychiatric or Mental Health Nursing.

   

  Completely revised as the most up-to-date, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative, comprehensive resource available and presented in an accessible, clinically-relevant, professional format.

  This textbook has been developed focusing on two central themes, evidence-based nursing practice and global mental health

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  Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing, 8/E
  Berman, Snyder, Kozier & Erb
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  Fundamentals of Nursing, 8/E presents the fundamentals of nursing care within the framework of the nursing process. Hallmark features are a clear and accessible writing style, a focus on practical application with real-world examples and case studies, and an appropriate level of detail for beginning students. The text is supported by a state-of-the art technology package to enhance the learning process.

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  Maternal & Child Nursing Care, 2/E
  London, Ladewig, Ball & Bindler
  ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 2032 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131723944 | ISBN-13: 9780131723948
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  Co-written by maternity and pediatric nurses, this text thoroughly integrates maternal-newborn nursing and pediatric nursing into a single book. With an equal focus on community-based care and hospital-based care, the new edition also incorporates complementary care, pain assessment and management, nutrition and health promotion, patient education and communication, research and evidence-based practice, and assessment as the core of the nursing process

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  Medical Surgical Nursing: Preparation for Practice, Combined Volume
  Osborn, Wraa & Watson
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 2688 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131781022 | ISBN-13: 9780131781023
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  Now more than ever, nursing education must be innovative to prepare future nurses for today’s challenging working environment. Medical-Surgical Nursing: Preparation for Practice offers a fresh perspective to help students become knowledgeable, caring health care professionals. The text provides numerous opportunities for participation in activities designed to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, which in turn provide a framework for applying evidence-based practice.

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  Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care, Single Volume, 4/E
  LeMone & Burke
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 2048 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131713086 | ISBN-13: 9780131713086
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  For courses in Medical Surgical Nursing.

   

  Students and instructors alike love this text's organization and clear presentation of patient care, with its consistent format and multiple methodologies for student learners—narrative text, boxes, tables, graphics, photographs. The text is built around functional health patterns, a framework used by many schools of nursing. With a focus on developing decision-making skills, the authors encourage students to think critically, thoughtfully, and realistically through an abundance of case studies and examples. Because nursing care is organized around prioritized diagnoses with interventions and rationales, students quickly understand the rationale of each action.

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  LeMone & Burke
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  Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care, Single Volume Value Package (includes Student Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care, Single Volume), 4/E
  LeMone & Burke
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  ISBN-10: 0136004318 | ISBN-13: 9780136004318
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  For courses in Medical Surgical Nursing.

   

  Students and instructors alike love this text's organization and clear presentation of patient care, with its consistent format and multiple methodologies for student learners–narrative text, boxes, tables, graphics, photographs. The text is built around functional health patterns, a framework used by many schools of nursing. With a focus on developing decision-making skills, the authors encourage students to think critically, thoughtfully, and realistically through an abundance of case studies and examples. Because nursing care is organized around prioritized diagnoses with interventions and rationales, students quickly understand the rationale of each action.

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  Mental Health Nursing, 6/E
  Fontaine
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 760 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135146550 | ISBN-13: 9780135146552
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  For undergraduate courses in Mental Health Nursing.

   

  Written in a student-friendly style, this comprehensive text, and leading resource in the field of mental health nursing, emphasizes effective communication skills, details cultural considerations, and presents mental health disorders within a systematic organizational framework using the nursing process. It reflects the diversity of its student readers, and the belief that the practice of mental health nursing is in direct response to the social, cultural, environmental, and biological components of mental illness.

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  MyNursingLab/Skills (access code required)
  Pearson
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  Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 8/E
  Davidson, London & Ladewig
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1280 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132208733 | ISBN-13: 9780132208734
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  For use as a core text for Maternity Nursing courses that include women's health.

   

  Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety of new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. The Eighth Edition of this popular text continues to emphasize the central role played by maternity nurses working with today's childbearing families, but also includes a global perspective, covering culture as a factor in relating to the woman's childbirth experience.  Women's health is emphasized throughout the lifespan, not only during the childbearing years, providing a more comprehensive perspective.

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  Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children, Essentials Version, 4/E
  Ball & Bindler
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 1408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132208717 | ISBN-13: 9780132208710
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  The fourth edition of this text is intended for pediatric nursing courses, one of the required courses in nursing programs

   

  The most concise, readable pediatric nursing text for use in RN programs. Exceptionally user-friendly and up-to-date, it uses a unique body system approach rather than developmental stages, allowing faculty to teach pediatrics in integrated course or short course without redundancy. This approach also focuses students on nursing care. Features abundant four-color photos and drawings throughout, extensive marginal notes, chapter-opening vignettes and more plus a heavy emphasis on community nursing. This text details the core essentials of pediatric nursing practice while also providing the critical thinking skills necessary for future challenges.

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  Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiological Approach, 2/E
  Adams & Holland
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 944 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131756656 | ISBN-13: 9780131756656
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  For courses in Pharmacology.

  Using a strong pathophysiology prototype approach to place drugs in context with how they are used therapeutically, this text gives students a clear picture of the importance of pharmacology to disease and ultimately to patient care. This holistic perspective to patient care is organized according to the body systems (units) and diseases (chapters) with complete information on the drug classifications used to treat the diseases. An easy to follow presentation and extensive pedagogical aids enable students to understand key concepts and apply essential components of nursing care to drug therapy.

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  Pharmacology: Connections to Nursing Practice
  Adams & Koch
  ©2010 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1552 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131525999 | ISBN-13: 9780131525993
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  Pharmacology is a challenging and dynamic subject, with new drugs constantly being introduced and new applications being developed for existing medications. Pharmacology: Connections to Nursing Practice helps students to effectively learn the dynamic discipline of pharmacology and how it relates to and is used within nursing practice. Students will ultimately recognize that pharmacology is not just an academic discipline, but a critical tool to prevent disease and promote healing of illness.

   

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