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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing by Mary C. Townsend; 2005; Philadelphia; F. A. Davis Company; $49.95; 697 pages; softcover.
Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing is an excellent, well-organized, and comprehensive psychiatric nursing textbook written for undergraduate nursing students. Townsend provides the reader with essential content in psychiatric mental health nursing. Major psychosocial and biological theories serve as a foundation for an explanation of behaviors related to health and mental illness. Townsend emphasizes application of theory to practice in explanation of the nursing process, critical pathways, and research.
The book is organized into four units, with each unit containing several chapters. The format of the chapters facilitates understanding of content. It includes a chapter outline, key terms, objectives, summary, and critical thinking and review questions.
Townsend adds a creative feature of...