Nursing Nerds

Mental Health and Therapeutic Communication

Book 13 · Page 22 / 15

What this book owns, what it borrows, and where everything else lives

Figure brief · not yet drawn

Three full-height bordered panels of equal width with rows aligned horizontally across all three, pointer chips set flush right in each row.

OWNSBORROWSDOES NOT COVER
The therapeutic communication technique bank and the exact phrasings that scoreGeneral class-level drug logic and suffix patterns → BOOK 05 · P4The six always-right communication moves, taught in → BOOK 01 · P21 and extended here, not restated
The non-therapeutic blockers and why each one loses the pointEvery reference range, therapeutic level, and absolute neutrophil threshold → BOOK 07 · P6Delegation, assignment, and supervision → BOOK 03
Major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder, bipolar I and bipolar IIAny calculation, including dose and rate → BOOK 06 · P3Restraint policy and law in the general medical setting → BOOK 04 · P11
Anxiety disorders, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorderThe NCJMM clinical judgment loop itself → BOOK 02 · P3Postpartum depression screening → BOOK 12 · P10; treatment is owned here
Schizophrenia and the other psychotic disordersInterview technique and documentation standards → BOOK 15 · P7Laboratory ranges printed as tables → BOOK 07
Personality disorders by cluster and the nursing response to eachThe medical derangements that cause delirium → BOOK 10 · P9All math, including lithium dosing arithmetic → BOOK 06
Feeding and eating disorders, including refeeding syndromeNeurologic pathophysiology of stroke and intracranial pressure → BOOK 10
Substance use, intoxication, and withdrawal, including alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremensExhibit anatomy and the general chart-reading method → BOOK 01 · P61
Trauma and stressor-related disorders
Neurocognitive disorders and the delirium distinction
Suicide risk assessment and precaution levels
Crisis intervention and verbal de-escalation
Restraint and seclusion in the psychiatric setting
The therapeutic milieu and defense mechanisms
All psychotropic pharmacology and its emergencies
Electroconvulsive therapy
Voluntary and involuntary admission, competence, and patient rights

Legend strip

  • Severity tokens: crit a finding that can kill · watch a finding that needs a second look · ok a keyed correct answer · mut a de-emphasized or non-scoring element.
  • Highlighter inks: yellow marks the sentence that scores; pink marks the trap that costs points.
  • Note devices: margin note, watch out, memory hook, takeaway, pointer chip, tick box, handwritten aside.

Margin noteif it needs a number, it lives in Book 7. → BOOK 01 · P21 → BOOK 07 · P6 Tick box: read the OWNS column twice.

Takeawaythis book teaches what to say and what to watch for; numbers, math, and delegation live elsewhere and are pointed to, never reprinted.