F.A. Davis Company

AJN Book of the Year 2009

Assure your mastery of psychiatric mental health nursing knowledge while honing your critical thinking and test-taking skills. Over 1,000 multiple-choice and alternate format questions, organized by specific mental health disorders, make a difficult subject more manageable. Rationales for both correct and incorrect answers as well as test-taking tips explain how to apply critical thinking to the question types—great preparation for classroom exams and the NCLEX®.

“The Success books have been an absolute lifeline for me.  My “Success” proves it!  It doesn’t matter if you get the question right or wrong because you get so much out of the rationale- and then you can apply that information to your next exam, clinical rotation, or the NCLEX” - Corrie Cyre, Hillsborough Community College Southshore Student Nurses Association President

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• BONUS! CD-ROM with two 75-question exams!
• Introductory chapter on applying critical thinking to each question type.
• Over 1,000 questions—all with rationales for both correct and incorrect answers.
• Test-taking tips for every question.
• All questions written at application and analysis levels, just like the NCLEX®.
• Questions numbered consecutively within each chapter, making it easy to find the answers.
• All questions field tested by nursing students.
• Approximately 300 new format questions throughout the text, the final exam, and the CD-ROM.
• Content organized by DSM-IV-TR mental health disorders.
• Key questions on major drug classes, medication administration, delegation, and management content integrated within mental disorder questions.

A. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking Related to Test-taking: The RACE Model
B. Basic Concepts in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
1 Mental Health/Mental Illness: Theoretical Concepts
2 Psychiatric Nursing
3 Communication
4 Pharmacology
5 Legal and Ethical Considerations
6 Stress Adaptation Throughout the Lifespan
C. Management of Care for Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders
7 Anxiety and Sleep Disorders
8 Psychophysiological and Somatoform Disorders
9 Delirium, Dementia, HIV, and Amnestic Disorders
10 Eating Disorders
11 Personality Disorders
12 Dissociative and Sexual/Gender Identity Disorder
13 Substance-related Disorders
14 Schizophrenia and Other Thought Disorders
15 Mood Disorders
16 Child and Adolescent Disorders
D. Comprehensive Final Examination
Glossary
Index