Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice

by Mary Ann Boyd PhD DNS RN PMHCNS-BC

Mary Ann Boyd’s Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice 6th edition is a comprehensive approach to psychiatric mental health nursing. Dr. Boyd revised the sixth edition to prepare nursing leaders who challenge the status quo, partner with their patients in the delivery of care, and use the latest evidence in their nursing practice.

The sixth edition has an emphasis on the recovery-interventions and wellness, with coverage of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents and older adults. The text presents complex concepts in easy-to-understand language with multiple examples and explanations.

Special features include threaded case studies that are mapped to the chapter’s nursing care plans, therapeutic dialogue. In addition, new sections emphasizing wellness and primary care integration will be added along with the retention of popular features such as Clinical Vignettes and NCLEX Notes.

The sixth edition includes access to the online video series, Lippincott Theory to Practice Video Series: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, available in the Student and Instructor Resources. These videos display mental health disorders, allowing students to gain experience and a deeper understanding of mental health patients.

Genres: Nursing

888 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Sam Donelson · Rating 1 out of 5]

One star is far too generous, but zero isn’t an option.

I imagine hell to be a place where the only book I am able to read is this. It missed the main points of mental health & was full of bias. As an individual with a psychology degree that went back to school for nursing, this book was a let down to my mental health class. I would rather run naked through a field of rose bushes than to ever have to read this book again. It enhanced my education by ZERO percent.

MARY BOYD OWES ME A FULL DISCOUNT.

[riley :)]

gotta get that reading goal somehow

[Shelley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Could the author be more biased? I very much wish my school had not chosen such a text. Every chapter I've read has some line or lines that make me want to pack it up and call it a night. It's quite unfortunate I'm forced into reading this. Had I chosen this on my own volition I'd have given up by now. The book caters to the victim mentality, offering little in the way of self responsibility, personal accountability and subsequent consequences. The cultural chapter dedicated entire paragraphs to every race except whites, who, by the way, have quite a high rate of suicide. Nevermind how mental illness is viewed in that dominant culture. Firearms are a risk factor for suicide, yet access to ropes, pills, and razors aren't? No, risk factors include mental illness, family history, older white males, loss. Guns are the tools that people with these risk factors use to complete suicide. Even if all of this didn't spoil the reading for me, the lack of efficient editing would. I just hope my IQ hasn't dropped and that I haven't been fully indoctrinated by the time this class ends.

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Woohoo!