Contents of the textbook:
PART I. Clinical psychiatry
Mental health and mental illness. A bio-psychosocial model of mental illness. Nursing Assessment and Behavior
Basic symptoms and syndromes in psychiatry
Organic Mental Disorders: Nursing Diagnoses and Clinical Behavior
Dependencies. Disorders caused by alcohol and psychoactive substances. Nursing assessments and therapeutic behavior
Schizophrenia - sisterly diagnosis and clinical behavior
Affective disorders - BAR. Nursing diagnosis
Anxiety and neurotic disorders. Nursing Assessments and Behavior
Stress-related somatoform and psychosomatic disorders. Nursing diagnoses and clinical behavior
Dissociative (conversion) disorders. Nursing assessments and therapeutic behavior
Psychosexual disorders. Nursing diagnoses and clinical behavior
Mental disorders with onset in childhood and adolescence. Nursing diagnoses
Mental disorders associated with old age and old age
Disorders of impulse control
Personality Disorders: Nursing Diagnoses and Clinical Behavior
Biological treatment. Collaboration with the patient
Psychotherapeutic behavior. The nurse/midwife as therapist
PART II. Role and place of the nurse/midwife in the therapeutic process
Communication with the patient and family. Psychiatric/psychotherapeutic interview. Conversation in everyday life. The relationship between the nurse/midwife and the patient. Family and mental illness. Mental illness as stigma
Multidisciplinary clinical team
Ethical and legal aspects in the work of the nurse and midwife. Confidentiality. Informed consent for treatment. Documents related to nursing care
Patient care. Nursing history, diagnosis, and individual care plan. Behavior of the nurse/midwife when the patient refuses food. Organization of a visit to a mentally ill patient treated in a hospital. Outpatient and inpatient care
Aggression. Preventing violence and dealing with violence. Deliberate self-harm and risk reduction. Isolation and fixation of patients. Nursing behavior in serving the expert patient. Assessment for simulation and dissimulation
Organization of activities for admission and discharge of patients
Healing process. Behavior of the nurse in the daily intake of medication by a mentally ill patient and in the administration of depot medication. Preparation and role of the nurse in the administration of electroconvulsive therapy. Documentation maintained by the nurse
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Psychiatry: Textbook for nurses and midwives / Georgi Popov, Rinaldo Shishkov, etc.; Ord. Rinaldo Shishkov. - Varna: Medical University - Varna, 2015. – 278 pp.; 24 cm.
Other authors: Georgi Popov, Dimitrichka Georgieva, Deyan Hrusafov, Dunyasha Petrova, Ivan Alexandrov, Ivanka Boncheva, Mariana Arnaudova, Petar M. Petrov, Petar Marinov, Petar Ya. Petrov, Raina Mandova, Rinaldo Shishkov, Svetla Yotseva, Svetla Milcheva, Svetlin Varbanov, Silvia Ralovska, Teodora Radeva, Hristo Kozhuharov
ISBN 978-619-7137-66-8
