Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing: Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

This new edition combines "Townsend's Pocket Guide" and "Townsend's Drug Guide" in one accessible reference. It discusses the seven major psychotropic drug classifications and has five additional chapters on HIV, homelessness, psychiatric home nursing care, forensic nursing and complementary therapies. Each nursing diagnosis includes the definition, aetiologies, defining characteristics, goals/objectives, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria. Each drug class includes pharmacologic data, representative drugs from a given drug class, nursing diagnoses and nursing implications.