This new edition combines Townsend's Pocket Guide and Townsend's Drug Guide in one accessible reference. It discusses the seven major psychotropic drug classifications and has five additional chapters on HIV, homelessness, psychiatric home nursing care, forensic nursing and complementary therapies. Each nursing diagnosis includes the definition, aetiologies, defining characteristics, goals/objectives, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria. Each drug class includes pharmacologic data, representative drugs from a given drug class, nursing diagnoses and nursing implications.