Contemporary Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Partnerships in Care, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (31 July 2025) © 2025

  • Lorna Moxham Central Queensland University
  • Michael Hazelton University of Wollongong
  • Eimear Muir-Cochrane Flinders University
  • Carol Ren Kneisl
  • Eileen Trigoboff State University of NY at Buffalo Department of Psychiatry and Buffalo Psychiatric Center
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Title overview

Developed for Australian nursing students

This pack contains 1 copy of Contemporary Pschiatric-Mental Health Nursing and 1 copy of Nursing Student's Adult Mental Health Survival Guide.

Contemporary Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing is a lived experience, contemporary, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative and comprehensive resource. It offers a fully integrated perspective which most importantly includes the voice of people with mental illness.

With a consumer voice was prominent in each chapter this text is designed to enhance students ability to become a therapeutic, nonjudgmental, competent and confident psychiatric/mental health nurse.

It is mapped to the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.

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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Table of contents

Contemporary Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

  • Chapter 1 People with lived experience and carers
  • Chapter 2 The therapeutic relationship
  • Chapter 3 Psychiatric/mental health nurses: who are they and what do they do?
  • Chapter 4 Self-awareness and the mental health nurse
  • Chapter 5 Theories for interdisciplinary care in mental health
  • Chapter 6 The biological basis of behavioural and mental disorders
  • Chapter 7 The science, practice and experience of psychopharmacology
  • Chapter 8 Stress, anxiety and anxiety disorders
  • Chapter 9 Therapeutic communication
  • Chapter 10 Psychiatric-mental health assessment
  • Chapter 11 Ethics, legal issues and the rights of people with a mental illness
  • Chapter 12 Cognitive disorders
  • Chapter 13 Substance use disorders
  • Chapter 14 Working in collaboration with people living with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
  • Chapter 15 Affective disorders
  • Chapter 16 Dissociative, somatic symptom and factitious disorders
  • Chapter 17 Eating disorders
  • Chapter 18 Personality disorders
  • Chapter 19 People at risk for suicide and self-harming behaviour
  • Chapter 20 Family violence
  • Chapter 21 The mental health of younger people
  • Chapter 22 Older people
  • Chapter 23 Therapeutic groups
  • Chapter 24 Family-focused interventions
  • Chapter 25 Cognitive and behavioural interventions
  • Chapter 26 Pathways of care

Nursing Student's Adult Mental Health Clinical Survival Guide

  • 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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