Full Description
This definitive work is the first book of its kind to compile all the clinical pathways needed by the psychiatric nurse. Each pathway is easy to follow and use, and includes expected outcomes and common variances. The information in this book is both theoretical and practical, ready to use in any psychiatric health care setting. The authors of this volume longed for such a resource when implementing critical pathways in their settings, but none existed.
Contents
The role of critical pathways psychiatry; critical pathways in acute care psychiatry; critical pathways in outpatient psychiatric settings; critical pathways in inpatient and outpatient detox settings; critical pathways in psychiatric home care; critical pathways in primary care psychiatry; psychiatric algorithms and copathways - the key to success with comorbidity; variance analysis and bench marking; psychiatric critical pathways - care across the health care contiuum; psychiatric critical pathways, documentation, and liability.NER(01): GB
