Nursing Care Plans

Presents the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. The book offers about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span.

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Updated with NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2018-20. The all-in-one care planning resource!

Here's the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You'll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features:

Client assessment database for each medical condition
Complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority
Diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean
Actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales
NANDA, NIC, and NOC's most recent guidelines and terminology
Evidence-based citations
Index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders




Instructor resources:
Ebook, medical/surgical, psychiatric, maternal/newborn care plans, nursing diagnosis arranged by Maslow's Heirarchy, previous edition resources

Student resources:
Disorder look-up, interactive assessment tool, concept map generator, care plan template, bibliography, medical/surgical, psychiatric, maternal/newborn care plans