All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (All-In-One Care Planning Resource: Med-Surg, Peds, Maternity, & Psychiatric Nursing)
- Clinical experts update each subject area to ensure the most current, accurate, and clinically relevant content available.
- Each care plan employs a consistent format of Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnoses, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, and Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning.
- An open and attractive two-color design facilitates quick and easy retrieval of information.
- Nursing interventions and rationales are listed in a clear two-column format to make the information more accessible.
- Related NIC intervention and NOC outcome labels are listed for each nursing diagnosis.
- The Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning section highlights key patient education topics and list resources for further information.
- Health Care Setting is specified for each care plan, since different conditions are treated in various settings such as hospital, primary care, long-term care facility, community, and home care.
- Outcome criteria with specific timelines enable nurses to set realistic goals for nursing outcomes and provide quality, cost-effective care.
- Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help you to apply concepts to clinical practice.
- Includes the most recent NANDA Taxonomy II nursing diagnoses.
- Separate care plans on Pain and Palliative and End-of-Life Care focus on palliative care for patients with terminal illnesses, as well as relief of acute and chronic pain.
- A new "Overview/Pathophysiology" heading helps you easily locate this key content.
- Nursing diagnoses listed in order of importance/physiologic need helps you learn about prioritization.
- All content has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest clinical developments, including the most recent JNC7 hypertension guidelines, the latest breast cancer screening and treatment information, revised cholesterol parameters, new drug therapies, and much more.
- Patient teaching content and abbreviations have been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest JCAHO guidelines.
- Expanded and clarified rationales help you understand each intervention more clearly.
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Putting essential information at your fingertips, this handy guide describes 200 commonly encountered medical-surgical disorders and procedures. Numerous illustrations and summary tables are used to clarify key information. It focuses on the information you need to know, emphasizing the procedures and treatments in which the nurse plays a major role.
Essential for NCLEX, course and competencey review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of medical-surgical nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post chapter tests with comprehensive rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts and new test-taking strategies. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, emergency and critical care, and much more. 
