A pocket-sized manual,  Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Planning: Assessment Guides, Diagnoses, and Psychopharmacology, 5th Edition is designed to assist in assessment, formulation of nursing diagnoses, and design of nursing care plans for patients with psychiatric disorders. It provides quick and easy access to the detailed and concrete information students and practicing nurses need to know as they care for patients in inpatient, community mental health, and home care settings. Expert author Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, RN, MA, provides a clinically based focus with the latest guidelines to psychiatric nursing care. Designed to accompany Foundations of Mental Health Nursing, this book is a perfect reference for creating care plans and for clinical use.