This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient's unique needs. Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.
Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.
A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.
Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.
Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.
Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.
Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.
Covers important information on concept mapping.
Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.
Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.
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Customer Rating: Summary: a good reference book Comment: This book is a great asset to have for student nurses. I am able to reference to this book for all of my required nursing care plans. Customer Rating: Summary: Book for the Ages Comment: This book is so worn already with the use that it gets, which just shows how essential it is. Everything that you need to know about the basics of care plans is in it Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome Comment: Received it in a timely manner and was as described, was very happy with it. Customer Rating: Summary: Great seller! Comment: Fantastic seller! Book came quickly in the condition it was described to be in! Would buy from again anytime! A++ Customer Rating: Summary: Don't go to nursing school without it! Comment: I have the 7th edition which was in our required book list for school. It is one of the only books I have used every semester, and I'm sure I'll use it in this last semester. I couldn't have done my evidence based papers or nursing care plans without it.
