Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 4th Edition

By (author)  Mary C. Townsend

The 4th Edition of this popular text clearly and concisely presents the fundamentals of psychiatric nursing in a user friendly design and reader-friendly writing style that reflects the voice of a single author.

Continued emphasis on holistic nursing and mind/body connection includes both physical and psychosocial nursing diagnoses for physiological disorders (e.g., asthma, migraine headache, hypertension) and for psychological disorders (such as somatoform and eating disorders).