New from WisTech Open: Nursing Mental Health & Community Concepts – 2e

WisTech Open is pleased to present Nursing Mental Health & Community Concepts – 2e, a free, open-access textbook created specifically for prelicensure nursing students. This updated second edition equips future nurses with essential knowledge and skills for delivering holistic care in mental health and community settings.

🧠 Why this textbook matters

Nursing Mental Health & Community Concepts – 2e empowers students to:

• Practice trauma-informed care and understand stigma, safety, and boundaries
• Build therapeutic communication skills, including motivational interviewing, telehealth, and nurse–client relationship strategies
• Apply the nursing process to mental health scenarios, with NCLEX-style case studies
• Navigate ethical and legal complexities, including standards of care and client rights
• Understand psychotropic medications, from antidepressants to stimulants and substance-use treatments
• Recognize and care for mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, and substance use
• Address community-based nursing with health assessments, support for vulnerable populations, environmental health, and emergency preparedness

This edition emphasizes holistic, evidence-based, culturally responsive care aligned with modern nursing standards.

👩‍🎓 Who it’s for

This resource is particularly valuable for:

• Prelicensure nursing students preparing for clinical practice and NCLEX readiness
• Nursing educators seeking a comprehensive, adaptable mental health resource
• Programs integrating OER into community and mental health nursing curricula
• Health professionals updating skills in therapeutic communication, mental health assessment, and community advocacy

📘 What’s inside

• Foundations of mental health nursing: trauma-informed care, stigma, and boundaries
• Therapeutic communication and the nurse–client relationship
• Stress, coping, and crisis intervention
• Nursing process in mental health care, with case studies and activities
• Legal and ethical considerations in nursing practice
• Psychotropic medications and safe usage practices
• Disorders and interventions across the lifespan
• Community health concepts: assessments, vulnerable populations, and emergency preparedness
• NCLEX Next-Generation style case studies, learning activities, and glossaries throughout

🔓 Open, flexible, and free

Nursing Mental Health & Community Concepts – 2e is published by WisTech Open and:

• Is completely free for students, educators, and professionals
• Licensed openly (CC BY 4.0) for adaptation and reuse
• Supports classroom, online, and hybrid learning formats
• Is mobile-friendly, accessible, and LMS-ready
• Includes updated content aligned with the NCLEX-RN Test Plan, DSM-5-TR, ANA Code of Ethics, and standardized nursing process frameworks

🚀 Explore or adopt the book today

Start reading here:
👉https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingmhcc/

Help nursing students cultivate the clinical judgment, communication skills, and ethical care competencies they need to support mental health and community wellness—with Nursing Mental Health & Community Concepts – 2e from WisTech Open.

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