NURSING 4615

Mental Health Competencies

Required Text
**Please note: The texts below are the new 7th edition and old
6th edition of the same text. DO NOT purchase both texts. While
we will refer to the 7th edition in class, you may use either
edition for your reading.
Halter, M. J. (2014). Varcarolis' foundations of psychiatric mental
health nursing: A clinical approach (7th ed.). St. Louis:
Saunders/Elsevier.
ISBN: 978-1-4557-5358-1
*If you wish to begin reading, read Chapters 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, & 25.

Varcarolis, E. M., & Halter M. J. (2010). Foundations of psychiatric

mental health nursing : A clinical approach (6th ed.). St. Louis:
Saunders/Elsevier.
ISBN: 978-1-4160-6667-5
*If you wish to begin reading, read Chapters 9, 10, 12, 13, 22, & 24.