This new addition to the ""Fast Facts"" series presents succinct, well organised information for nursing students, recent graduates, and experienced psychiatric nurses. Its format, which includes concise tables, clear examples, and a bullet-point ""Fast Facts in a Nutshell"" box, facilitates easy access to information for busy nurses.

Chapters encompass emergency, inpatient, and community settings and cover signs and symptoms of common disorders, interventions including medications, legal and ethical issues, commonly used models of care, child and adolescent psychiatric nursing, and psychiatric emergencies. Each chapter also provides a list of patient and family resources.

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