UNIT I: ESSENTIAL THEORETICAL CONCEPTS FOR PRACTICE

1. Practicing the Science and the Art of Psychiatric Nursing

2. Mental Health and Mental Illness

3. Theories and Therapies 

4. Biological Basis for Understanding Psychopharmacology

5. Settings for Psychiatric Care

6. Legal and Ethical Basis for Practice

UNIT II: TOOLS FOR PRACTICE OF THE ART

7. Nursing Process and QSEN: The Foundation for Safe and Effective Care UPDATED!

8. Communication Skills: Medium for All Nursing Practice

9. Therapeutic Relationships and the Clinical Interview

UNIT III: CARING FOR PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DISORDERS

10. Stress and Stress-Related Disorders NEW!

11. Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders UPDATED!

12. Somatic and Dissociative Disorders UPDATED!

13. Personality Disorders

14. Eating Disorders

15. Mood Disorders: Depression UPDATED!

16. Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorders UPDATED!

17. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

18. Neurocognitive Disorders

19. Substance Use and Addictive Disorders UPDATED!

UNIT IV: COMMUNICATING WITH AND PLANNING CARE FOR PATIENTS EXPERIENCING PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES

20. Crisis and Mass Disaster

21. Child, Partner, and Elder Violence

22. Sexual Violence

23. Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors

24. Anger, Aggression, and Violence

25. Care for the Dying and Those who Grieve

UNIT V: COMMUNICATING WITH AND PLANNING CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH DESCRETE NEEDS

26. Children and Adolescents 

27. Adults

28. Older Adults

Appendixes

A DSM-5 Classification 

B NANDA-International Approved Nursing Diagnoses

C DSM-5 Criteria Boxes