Mental Health Nursing: The Nurse-Patient Journey, First Edition, by Carson and Arnold. 1996.
This text book forged new ground for psychiatric nursing. It focuses on the stories of patients and nurses and the journey that they take together. The book examines the uniqueness of each person's walk through life and the uniqueness of each relationship formed on that walk. The approach used in the text include both existential and humanistic models as well as a focus on spirituality.
Mental Health Nursing: The Nurse-Patient Journey, 2nd Edition, By Carson, 2002.
The second edition of this book continued the initial focus of the story and the journey with revised and updated content to reflect the expanding knowledge and research about psychiatric disorders.
Parish Nursing: Stories of Service and Care, by Carson and Koeing, 2002.
This book was awarded an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. The focus of this work is on the individual parish nurses and the loving difference they make in the lives of congregants. These nurses weave together the knowledge and skill of nursing care with a deep spiritual awareness and commitment to facilitating physical, emotional and spiritual wholeness in those that they serve. The stories are woven into a tapestry that provides the reader with the structure of parish nursing and a sense of awe for the commitment made by nurses to serve.
Spiritual Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry by Carson and Koenig, 2004
This book weaves together the stories of "call" felt by health professionals of all disciplines. For each the call to serve was unique but each responded to this call as if it were a call to ministry. Indeed most of the healthcare professionals interviewed for this text believe that what they do is indeed a ministry. Through the eyes of these dedicated healthcare providers, the reader is given a glimpse into the current health care system: its failings and its possibilties. We glimpse how these providers approach the spiritual needs of patients and families while still delivering excellent healthcare.
Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, 5th Edition by Varcarolis, Carson and Shoemaker.
This book represents a major revision of a psychiatric textbook that has been widely used for over 16 years. The content includes culturally relevant mental health nursing interventions, content on psychiatric forensic nursing, sleep disorders, attention deficit disorder and sexual disorders. Special features include "A client speaks", Evidenced Based Practice Boxes. Integrative Therapy Boxes, Forensic Highlights and Key Points to Remember.