Nursing Student's Adult Mental Health Survival Guide, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (September 20, 2013) © 2014

  • Trudy Dwyer Central Queensland University
  • Paul Robson
  • Marc Broadbent Central Queensland University
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A pocket-sized Australian edition survival guide

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The Nursing Student's Adult Mental Health Clinical Survival Guide includes content aimed at helping students or new graduates find relevant information that assists their everyday practice in an adult setting quickly and with accuracy. This pocket-sized guide contains common Australian terminology, standard abbreviations, alcohol consumption guidelines and recovery principles, among many other essential elements of mental health nursing.

The information within the resource is not meant to be comprehensive. It is not a mental health text, but like the other books in the Survival Guide series, it provides information which serves as a quick reference for students and new graduates in clinical practice.

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  • INTRODUCTION
  • RECOVERY AND RECOVERY-ORIENTED PRACTICE
  • Recovery 'Star'
  • MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION (MSE)
  • Key areas of assessment
  • SELF-HARM RISK ASSESSMENT
  • Assessing for potential risk of suicide
  • MENTAL ILLNESS: AN OVERVIEW
  • Definitions
  • SIGNS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
  • Symptoms associated with depression, mania and anxiety
  • Possible signs of mental health problems
  • MEDICATIONS USED IN MENTAL HEALTH
  • NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME (NMS)
  • Medications associated with NMS
  • Extra pyramidal side effects (EPSE)
  • ASSESSING SPECIFIC MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
  • Pre- and postnatal depression
  • Geriatric depression
  • Assessing risk of self-harm
  • TOPICS FOR PSYCHO-EDUCATION
  • EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) MENTAL HEALTH
  • TRIAGE
  • Treatment acuity
  • MEDICATION SAFETY
  • Written medication orders
  • Telephone medication orders
  • Medication dosages
  • Medication routes
  • Metric equivalents
  • DRUG SCHEDULING SYSTEM
  • INTOXICATION
  • Standard drinks
  • Features of intoxication
  • CLINICAL HANDOVER TIPS
  • ISBAR
  • CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION
  • The SOAP approach
  • Example of an inpatient clinical audit tool
  • QUICK RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
  • COMMON ABBREVIATIONS
  • USEFUL RESOURCES

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