Main description:

The Nurse's Guide to Mental Health Medicines is an invaluable, pocket sized guide to a complex subject. Each chapter provides a short and easy-to-read overview of the different drug types used in mental health nursing, focusses only on the need to know information and the associated risks and side effects. The chapters also provide a short medicines list that gives you fast facts relating to the most common drugs used in practice.

Key features:

Simple layout with clear tables putting the facts at your fingertips
Written by nurses for nurses providing the perfect amount of detail for the busy student or practitioner
Clear and simple language combined with real world case studies to cut through the jargon and terminology

Contents:

Chapter 1: Anti-Depressant Medications
Chapter 2: Mood Stabilising Medications
Chapter 3: Medications for Managing Anxiety
Chapter 4: Medications when working with Drug and Alcohol Dependencies
Chapter 5: Anti-Psychotic Medications
Chapter 6: Medicines for Rapid Tranquilisation
Chapter 7: Medication used for the Management of Dementia
Appendix: Conversion table for different units of medicines