Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care

This bestselling reference helps users make nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. It helps nurses correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. This extensively revised and updated edition presents the most up-to-date information on all 2005-2006 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses. You'll also appreciate the handbook's integration of both the NIC and NOC taxonomies; evidence-based nursing interventions; home care; client/family teaching; and multicultural, geriatric, and pediatric considerations. Instructor resources are available; contact your sales representative for details.

• Helps users understand how to make a nursing diagnosis and plan care using the nursing process and evidence-based nursing research.
• The practical, step-by-step format helps users make diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence.
• Integrates both NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes in each care plan.
• Features essential home care, client/family teaching, multicultural, pediatric, and geriatric considerations relevant to today's nursing students.
• Helps users easily create customized plans of care using the Ackley, Ladwig Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website.

• This edition has been extensively revised and updated to include the most up-to-date information on all 2005-2006 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses.
• The new alphabetical thumb tabs offer easy access to specific nursing diagnosis care plans.
• Features a helpful explanation of how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections.
• Features many enhancements to the accompanying Evolve website (see Ancillaries for details).
• Includes more detailed information about NOC and its use in nursing care planning.
• Guide to Nursing Diagnoses section features more emotional/spiritual elements and now includes coverage of Mad Cow, E. Coli, West Nile, Foodborne Illnesses, and Pesticide Contamination.
• Guide to Planning Care section now offers updated and expanded multicultural, pediatric, and evidence-based interventions/rationales.
• An appendix now includes Gordon's Functional Health Patterns, as adapted by the authors.

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Use this convenient resource to formulate nursing diagnoses and create individualized care plans! Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 9th Edition shows you how to build customized care plans using a three-step process: assess, diagnose, and plan care. It includes suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) information to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales.

• Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention.


• Unique! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.


• Includes step-by-step instructions on how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.


• Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions as necessary for plans of care.


• Includes examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.


• Allows quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses with alphabetical thumb tabs.


• Unique! Includes a Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website for hands-on practice in creating customized plans of care.

• Includes the new 2009-2011 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses including 21 new and 8 revised diagnoses.


• Illustrates the Problem-Etiology-Symptom format with an easy-to-follow, colored-coded box to help you in formulating diagnostic statements.


• Explains the difference between the three types of nursing diagnoses.


• Expands information explaining the difference between actual and potential problems in performing an assessment.


• Adds detailed information on the multidisciplinary and collaborative aspect of nursing and how it affects care planning.


• Shows how care planning is used in everyday nursing practice to provide effective nursing care.

Price: $54.95

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