PsychNotes: Clinical Pocket Guide

This a great help when I need guidance with my charting

really helped me for my clinicals and mental health course in nursing

Excellent guide, thorough, easy to use.

I already have a BS in psych and I’m getting my BSN-RN before working a few years as a psych RN and then gaining my PMHNP. This book is meant to follow me for years to come into my NP practice, and it is perfect for just that. It’s practically a psychology and psychiatry/psychopharmacology textbook in one. I can’t bring myself to purchase any pocket psych assessment guides or pocket psych med guides or pocket DSM-5’s because this is all three and a bag of chips. Seriously, this is an invaluable tool for students, psych RN’s, psych NP’s, counselors, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, drug rehabilitation technicians, literally anyone who works with mental illness regularly in a medical sense/setting. The fact you can fill out the assessment pages in ballpoint pen, chart the results, and then wipe it off with an alcohol wipe for reuse is just genius. Can’t recommend enough, truly!

Extremely helpful resource. Has screens, diagnoses, treatment protocols, etc. Extensive medication list. Covers elders and postpartum for depression. Waterproof pages are sturdy. Can use page markers repeatedly and move them around.

I’ve looked through a few different quick reference guides and this takes the cake. It has just about everything: Basics, Assessments, Disorders and Interventions, Drugs/Labs, Drugs Alphabetized, Crisis and even Geri Psych.I wish I had this during nursing school because it would have been a huge help.I also love that it’s spiral bound, small enough to actually fit in your pocket and waterproof- you can write on it with a ballpoint pen and wipe off with an alcohol wipe.Awesome little reference guide!

very handy to carry in your pocket during clinicals

It was helpful, but I need bigger print. I used it a handful of times.