Caring for Adults with Mental Illness: A Nurses Perspective in Bridging the Clinical Knowledge Gap, (Paperback)

This book may help to bridge the clinical knowledge gap of common psychiatric diagnosis and medication treatments. Both family members and psychiatric providers caring for adult psychiatric patients may benefit and gain knowledge from the clinical-based information discussed. Information provided may help the reader identify clinical "red flags" to help properly diagnose or better understand psychiatric patients and their diagnosis. Further insight into medications, their side effects, and specific psychiatric diagnoses may help to increase general knowledge within the field psychiatry and reduce stigma for those suffering with mental illness. The author is a psychiatric family mental health nurse practitioner and the book's content is based on his clinical experiences.