This convenient reference is designed to help practicing nurses and nursing students make a nursing diagnosis and write a care plan with ease and confidence. An excellent teaching and learning tool, this handbook 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 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses. Further integration of both the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, home care, client/family teaching, and multicultural and geriatric considerations enhance the book's relevance to today's nursing students and practitioners.
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<li>Provides care plans for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis.</li>
<li>Allows quick access to information with alphabetical organization of Sections II and III.</li>
<li>Includes more geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions as necessary for plans of care.</li>
<li>Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes in each care plan.</li>
</ul>
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<li>A cross-referenced NANDA list (inside back cover) to Section III.</li>
<li>Icons for home care, client/family teaching, multicultural, and geriatric interventions.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! 2nd color for nursing-based research rationales.</li>
<li>UNIQUE! Pain section (formerly an appendix) between Acute Pain and Chronic Pain care plans with a bleed to this section for easy access.</li>
<li>Up-to-date information on all 2003-2004 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses.</li>
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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care

Medical Books

Betty J. Ackley

Gail B. Ladwig

Nursing

Mosby

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.
<ul>
<li>Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.</li>
<li>Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.</li>
<li>A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.</li>
<li>Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.</li>
<li>Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.</li>
<li>A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.</li>
<li>Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.</li>
<li>Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.</li>
<li>Covers important information on concept mapping.</li>
<li>Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.</li>
<li>Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.</li>
<li>Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.</li>
</ul>

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

Mosby Elsevier

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.

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

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Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care

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

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