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SPRINGER Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Certification 2Nd Edition by Randolph N
This edition offers updates on depressive disorders and DSM-IV criteria along with posttests that more closely resemble the actual exam. Contents include certification examination specifics; fundamental concepts; human development; settings, roles, and scope of practice; theoretical models of behavior; nursing research; therapeutic communication; legal aspects of nursing practice; anxiety disorders; substance use disorders; adjustment disorder; dissociative disorders; mood disorders; delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorders; personality disorders; schizophrenia; somatoform disorders; psychiatric therapies; psychopharmacology; posttest; and appendices: standards of psychiatric and mental health nursing practice and NANDA taxonomy I revised.