Part 1: Laying the Foundations of Psychiatry

1. MSE (Secrets to Identifying Psychiatric Patients)
1) What is MSE?
2) Priority items
3) General items
2.
Types of Hospitalization (Understanding Psychiatric Hospitalization)
1) Voluntary hospitalization
2) Consent to hospitalization
3) Protective hospitalization
4) Administrative hospitalization
5) Emergency hospitalization
6) Admission and discharge nursing
3.
Ward Life Management (Is Ward Life Different in the Department of Psychiatry?)
1) Differences between psychiatric wards
2) Interview management
3) Management of going out and staying out overnight
4) Phone management
5) Walks and snack management
6) Management of imported goods
7) Treatment
4.
Diagnostic Tests (What diagnostic tests are available in psychiatry?)

Part 2 Types of Psychiatric Nursing

1.
Nursing care for medication (can I refuse to take medication?)
1) Psychiatry and medication
2) Refusal to take medication
3) Monitoring medication use
4) Psychiatry and Drug Side Effects Nursing
2.
Nursing care for self-harm and harm to others (emergency response methods in psychiatry)
1) Self-harming patients
2) Patients with other injuries
3.
Nursing for Isolation and Compulsion (When Should I Use Isolation and Compulsion?)
1) Before treatment: Situations and judgment conditions requiring isolation and compulsion
2) During treatment: What to do when implementing isolation and restraint
3) After treatment: Nursing care to be provided after isolation and restraint are implemented
4.
Nursing care for self-care (what if you have difficulty performing daily activities on your own?)
5.
Sleep Nursing (What to do when you can't sleep?)

Part 3: Learning Nursing Care by Disease through Case Studies

1.
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (if there are hallucinations and delusions)
2.
Mood disorders (are you feeling too happy or depressed?)
1) Bipolar disorder
2) Depressive disorder
3.
Anxiety disorder (what if my heart is pounding and I feel very anxious?)
4.
Eating Disorders (What if eating is too difficult?)
5.
Substance-related disorders (addiction, it can happen to anyone!)
6.
Sleep disorder (is not being able to sleep also a disease?)
7.
Dementia (What are the real problems that dementia patients may have?)

Key contents by part

- Part 1: This covers basic practical matters that you may be wondering whether to ask your senior nurse.
- Part 2: This book is designed to be easy to understand, based on vivid cases, on the most frequent situations that occur in psychiatry and that nurses must deal with.
- Part 3: This is explained through case studies to help you understand the most common diseases that lead to hospitalization in clinical settings.
In particular, we focused on what must be checked clinically for each disease and how to do it.

I recommend this in this situation.

- A new nurse about to join the psychiatry ward
- New nurses with fear of psychiatric emergencies
- Experienced nurse who transferred to the Department of Psychiatry
- Nursing students interested in psychiatry and curious about the practical aspects
- All nurses who want to study how to approach psychiatric patients