Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Disorders    4. Nursing - Mental Health    5. Nursing - Psychiatric    6. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    7. Psychiatric Nursing    8. methods    9. nursing    10. Medical / Nursing / General   

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Much Improved Fifth Edition.
Any book of thys type that has gone through five editions has to have something going for it, and This book has many. Perhaps the most important is the writing style which is as light and casual as it can be considering the subject. The goal is, of course, to prepare the student for a career. The book combined instructional material with case histories that illustrate how a particular case, situation, or patient was successfully handled. Each chapter starts with a page entitles 'A Nurse Speaks.' Here practicing nurses relate some of their history
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Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Psychiatric    4. Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric    5. Psychiatric nursing   

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I have updated to the new edition
I bought the first edition of this book after transfering from a multisystem ICU to a neuro-surgical ICU. I have found it to be a very Nurse friendly book. I have several resources for neuro, some are very complex.Joanne Hickey has put together information on a very cerebral topic that is for Nurses from novice to expert.

Love neuroscience-get this book!
The Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing is an excellent overview of the care and management of the neuroscience patient. It's perspective is largely that of neurosurgery/ trauma nursing and is focused predominately on the acute phases of care. This text is arranged topically by disease/ injury process with the introductory chapters oriented towards concerns in neuroscience nursing. The depth and breadth of the material is suitable to meet my needs in the neuro-intensive care unit of the Level I trauma center in which I work. It provides a ready and easy to use reference with solid explantions of disease process, complications, treatment, pharmacology, and nursing considerations. I recommend this text to new nurses in neuroscience at my hospital regularly and I am currently using it to prepare for certification in neuroscience nursing. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nervous System Diseases    4. Neurologic Nursing    5. Neurologic Surgery Nursing    6. Neurological nursing    7. Neurosurgery    8. Nursing - General    9. Nursing - Medical & Surgical    10. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    11. Nursing - Psychiatric    12. Pathophysiology    13. nursing    14. Medical / Nursing / Medical & Surgical    15. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    16. Reference works   

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It's great for nursing students!
Being a recent nursing student I have to say I really liked this book. Mary C. Townsend did an excelllent job breaking down the material. It contains nursing diagnosis, chapter summaries,case studies and chapter reviews. It included every aspect of information that made paperwork, careplans, clinical prep-work and studying a bit easier. I would reccomend this book to any nursing student especially if this may be your future field. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Evidence-Based Medicine    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Nursing - Psychiatric    5. Psychiatric Nursing    6. methods   

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Wonderful book
By giving you an understanding of how the person with alzheimers views their world, this book helps the caregiver make life a little easier, happier, and more meaningful. It also reduces the stress and frustration of the caregiver because you gain knowledge of how to handle situations that before were a struggle.

Excellent for anyone touched by dementia
Jolene Brackey spoke at the nursing home where I work with patients with dementia. She is an incredible speaker and author. This book has so many wonderful ideas for nursing home workers and people who have loved ones with dementia. It is very reader-friendly and easy to understand. Jolene includes many real life examples to illustrate her ideas. She has a sense of humor and a sense of compassion that radiates with every chapter. I've used her ideas and had amazing success in my job. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to appreciate people with dementia. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Blank Books / Diaries / Memory Books    2. Caregiving    3. Inspirational - Gifts    4. Medical    5. Nursing - Psychiatric    6. Coping with illness    7. Home nursing & caring    8. Self-Help / Aging   

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Excellent!
Book was like new, great price, great shipping time, and most of all great seller! Thank you very much! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Disorders    4. Nursing - General    5. Nursing - Mental Health    6. Nursing - Psychiatric    7. Psychiatric Nursing    8. methods    9. nursing    10. Medical / Nursing / General   

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EXCELLENT
Textbook is excellent. It comes with a disk that has the workbook on it and it is really helpful.

a readable text:Essentials of Psych Mental Health Nursing
This is an easy to read text for Psych Nursing. I've found it helpful...It doesn't seem to give great detail on psychopharmacology, but it is still helpful.I like that it is a paperback version. I received the book very quickly.Good service.
A book worth its title
It is a comprehensive but detailed text book with the necessary informations organized in a better way so that the reader could get the information he wanted without any fuss.
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Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Disorders    4. Nursing - Mental Health    5. Nursing - Psychiatric    6. Psychiatric Nursing    7. methods    8. nursing   

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Good
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this for my 3rd year rotation.I typically like more outline/topic organization texts, and I reluctantly bought this b/c other student highly recommended it.And I really liked this book.I have almost exclusively used this for my reading.And while pharmacology is included for each case, I still like to see all the pharmacology in a comparison table.So I had to supplement with an additional text for a more thourogh discussion of pharm-stuff.

Great book for Psych
I guess I am a little biased--I love the entire "Case Files" series.As always, this is another outstanding book of teaching cases.Some of the "hints" in the histories given for the cases are a little too obvious, but no complaints other than that.

I love the Case Files Series!
During third year of medical school, the way students learn totally changes.The most important information that students retain is going to be about patients they admit, that they see on the wards or work-up while on call.While other study materials give students the "facts," Case Files realizes that the best way for junior and senior medical students to learn is through case presentations.I would say that their format closely resembles the paradigm of how students should learn; a case is presented, discussed, key terms are defined, questions are presented about the text, and the information about the case is summarized.These books almost make it too easy to retain and apply clinically useful information!I used the psychiatry book as a complement to other texts, but it was my sole source of study for ob/gyn.
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Subjects:  1. Case Report    2. Case studies    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Mental Disorders    6. Nursing - Psychiatric    7. Psychiatry    8. Psychiatry (General)    9. Psychiatry - General    10. Psychology, Clinical    11. Test Preparation & Review    12. therapy    13. Medical / Psychiatry   

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Altho a difficult read this is a great teaching text
This text provides informative and up to date information regarding a broad range of drug related topic.Althought the reading level is not easy, the information is extremely useful for drug counselors.The information presented regarding psychopharmacology provides an excellent base of preparation for the certification test used in many states.I highly recommend this text as well as many of the web site exercises. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Psychology    5. Psychopathology - Addiction    6. Family & Health    7. Popular medicine   

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great service
Got the book within 4 days and in excellant condition. A pleasure to do business with.

Great book for introductory mental health nursing
We used this in my psych/mental health theory class.I really liked this book.It's written on a level that was easy enough to follow but still gave me a strong base to draw from in clinical.Also, because it had little vignettes throughout each chapter, I found that it didn't bore me to death like nursing textbooks often do.I also like how It included great info on both older meds (i.e. the ones that they will still be testing on for NCLEX) as well as newer meds that I actually saw on the floor.Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Disorders    4. Mental Illness    5. Nursing - Mental Health    6. Nursing - Psychiatric    7. Psychiatric Nursing    8. nursing   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Mental Health    4. Nursing - Psychiatric    5. Medical / Nursing / General    6. Psychiatric nursing   

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Very Good Resource
This pocket guide has been great! It is filled with very helpful information and it fits right into my pocket, so I can have it with me all day long without lugging a big book around. This pocket guide and the RNotes are truely a great addition to my busy day on the nursing floor.

Psych Notes
I highly recommend Psych Notes by Darlene Pederson. It is very complete, concise and accurate. A worthwhile book for both students and seasoned psychiatric nurses as it makes a wonderful quick reference and is very complete. I particularly like the presentation in the Disorders section which addresses signs and symptoms, causes, rule outs, lab tests and interventions. The "cause" sectionaddresses not only the usual and customary "psychosocial" factors but also the pathophysiology.
Great Clinical Pocket Guide!
Key Features
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Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - General    4. Nursing - Psychiatric    5. Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Mental Disorders    3. Mental Health    4. Mental Illness    5. Nursing - Mental Health    6. Nursing Care    7. Psychiatric nursing    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Psychology    10. methods    11. nursing    12. Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric   

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First disappointment on made incredibly easy book.
I'm a fan of made incredibly easy nursing book series. So far they provided me with great resources to help me study for my classes. However, I find this book below standard comparing with the other incredibly easy books. In psychiatric nursing, we focused more on client-nurse relationship and communication, and this book failed to accomodate that section which was the essential and core parts of psychiatric nursing. Your best bet is to stick to your textbook and don't bother buying this guide book. It only focuses on medication. Authors, this is not a medical surgical guide book; it is a psychiatric nursing guide book. Please remember that! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Disorders    4. Nursing - Mental Health    5. Nursing - Psychiatric    6. Psychiatric Nursing    7. diagnosis    8. methods    9. Medical / Nursing / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Brain    2. Health/Fitness    3. Mental Disorders    4. Mental Illness    5. Neurology - General    6. Neuropsychiatry    7. Neuropsychology    8. Psychobiology    9. Psychology    10. physiopathology    11. Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric    12. Psychiatric nursing    13. Psychiatry   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Mental Disorders    4. Nursing - General    5. Nursing - Mental Health    6. Nursing - Psychiatric    7. Psychiatric Nursing    8. nursing    9. Medical / Nursing / General   

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Great Book
As a nursing instructor, I found this book very helpful in educating my students about pharmacology.It laid a good foundation for an introduction to pharmacology for each body system.My students loved the setup of the chapters and the bullet point format.

not very helpful to me
I looked at this book once and it had completely different drug info than my text, so I never looked at it again. Also, entire drug categories that were in my text were missing from this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Examination Questions    2. Examinations, questions, etc    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Nursing    6. Nursing - Mental Health    7. Nursing - Pharmacology    8. Nursing - Reference    9. Pharmaceutical Preparations    10. Pharmacology    11. Pharmacy    12. Medical / Nursing / Reference    13. Psychiatric nursing   

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Psychopharmacological overview in practical format
In it's second edition, the bookdivides into two essential overviews that are very"user friendly".The first part profiles a general clinical psychopharmacology which provides a well written and comprehensible neuroanatomy review, which is basic to the understanding ofhow psychotropic drugs work.The mental disorders are discussed which these drugs are used to treat, along with ECT, abuse dynamics andinterventions.Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology    4. Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric    5. Pharmacology    6. Psychiatry   

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Nursing Oncology Secrets
I have provided my research team with this reference book. We all have differing backgrounds and are responsible for abstracting medical records of cancer patients. Our credentials range from MD, RN, CTR, MIS. This book has been most useful to us all - in particular the Chemotherapy data. We hope there is a new edition in the works since therapy changes rapidly, in part we hope as the result of our data collection.

What a find!
I've worked on a med-surg/oncology unit for a little more than a year now and this book has really helped me out, especially in regards to chemotherapy administration and side effects.It contains a wealth of information that I haven't been able to find anywhere else (from one source).There are chapters devoted to different types of cancers, as well as chapters on radiation, biotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and palliative care.I can't recommend this book highly enough -- perfect for oncology nurses!

Oncology Nursing Secrets
This book was a great help to me as a family NP starting over in Hem/Onc!I did not have an oncology background, and it's very easy to understand, and answered many of the questions I have had in the field.I find it to be a good resource, and refer to it still. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cancer    2. Cancer Care Nursing    3. Examination Questions    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Miscellanea    7. Neoplasms    8. Nursing    9. Nursing - Critical & Intensive care    10. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    11. Nursing - Oncology & Cancer    12. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    13. Oncologic Nursing    14. methods    15. Medical / Nursing / Oncology & Cancer    16. Oncology    17. Psychiatric nursing   

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Psych Care Plans
There is definately some very good information in this book.I guess I was hoping for a quick reference type of layout somewhere in the book.I have to go to the index and look up which illness I want to research plans of care for.I wish they had listed the medical diagnoses and then the possible nursing diagnoses.This has great information though that is pertinent to the care plan for the patient with psychiatric diagnoses.I keep it on my desk at work and refer to it often!

As A Nursing Student.......
This book really helped me in preparing my care plans for class.Not only does it have care plan information, it also has guides for tests such as the Mini-Mental.It really helped me out. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Nursing - Psychiatric    4. Medical / Nursing / Psychiatric    5. Psychiatric nursing