Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing is designed to support a one-semester psychiatric-mental health nursing course offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Serving students specializing in psychiatric nursing and those from other health disciplines, this learning resource integrates evidence-based practices with practical strategies for communication, readying students to build therapeutic relationships with patients and caregivers.
Authors:
Detweiler, Evans, Fant, Harris-Aber, and Pantelides
Publisher:
Middle Tennessee State University
License:
CC BY-NC-SA
An open-access textbook composed to support Middle Tennessee State University's ENGL 1010: Expository Writing course. In this book, we adopt this exploratory orientation to communication, inviting you too to consider writing across contexts, its many consequent misunderstandings, and satisfying moments of remedy.
In this book you will learn about the application of manualized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in treating Generalized Anxiety Disorders. A chapter is devoted to cover the theoretical framework for CBT and the evidence that supports its efficacy in treatment. Lastly, this text utilizes a case based approach to gain knowledge and skills in this treatment approach. The text illustrations, aimed to help the reader create an emotional linkage to the topics, characters and treatment approach, were created by Jonathan Hoffmann using a Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform.
This text focuses on the appropriate use of a variety of assessment and observation strategies to document child development and behavior. Child observations will be conducted and analyzed.
Welcome to Introduction to Engineering - Thinking Like an Engineer. This textbook introduces first-year engineering students to analytical thinking, engineering disciplines, academic pathways, problem solving, modeling, computation, design, communication, and professional practice.
This book offers an accessible and critical look at the historical geography of North America. Placing an emphasis on the continent's various human geographies, the book discusses how they developed and interacted across North America’s various physiographic regions. Highlighting spatial entanglements of culture, ethnicity, and religion, the book addresses the development of technology within the context of the historical extraction and consumption of the continent’s natural resources. Engaging a time span that reaches back to the Pre-Columbian Era, and up to the early decades of the twenty-first century, the book provides a broad survey of North America's historical geography.
This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.
Maternal-Newborn Nursing introduces students to the concepts and skills related to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, newborn care, reproductive health, and social determinants related to those topics. Written and thoroughly reviewed by experienced nurse educators, the material focuses on patient safety, mental health, and inclusive care, and offers robust real-world scenarios and situational patient education experiences to apply concepts to practice.
Clinical Nursing Skills is designed to equip nursing students with the practical knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to provide comprehensive patient care. The material emphasizes the application of clinical judgment in a variety of settings, ensuring that students are prepared to deliver high-quality care across different patient populations and clinical scenarios. The content utilizes concepts promoting the development of clinical judgment by building upon the systematic model developed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).
Equal parts how-to guide and exploration of the mass media industry, this book examines all aspects of harnessing the immense power of modern storytelling tools to ethically serve an audience and society while earning a living along the way.
