Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care |  | Authors: Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN CHTP
Publisher: Mosby
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 2163
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8
Pages: 960
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0323048269
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780323048262
ASIN: 0323048269
Publication Date: June 28, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Nursing Diagnosis Book made Easy! November 7, 2009
M. Biering
This book is very easy to use. The best part is that you can look up a medical diagnosis in the front section of the book, and it will list for you a few nursing diagnosis that are commonly used. This book is very easy to use, and makes writing nursing care plans much faster.
Great purchase! September 27, 2009
Karla Baker
The book was a stated. It was very helpful on my last care plan.
very satisfied September 19, 2009
Lynda Holstine (Garnett, Ks USA)
I am very satisfied with my purchase. It was shipped and arrived in a timely manner, it was in excellent condition.
Thanks for the care plan ideas September 18, 2009
a. jerk
I'm a second year nursing student and this was very helpful for writing care plans and working out interventions and rationales.
 review September 10, 2009
Kayla M. Burroughs (Missouri)
I have a book like this one already, that after comparing I think I like better. But it's not bad at all. good book for RN care
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