Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care
by: Gail B. Ladwig MSNRNCHTP, Betty J. Ackley MSNEdSRN
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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.
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 Reviews
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- Excellent care plan book for the new nursing student
I have used 4 other care plan books.It wasn't until I purchased this book that I began getting As on my care plans.Writing goals and outcomes have been the hardest for me, but this book allows me to write them in the way that my faculty want.
Rating: - need this book
My Aunt is a nursing instructor and told me "You have to have an Ackley"so I got the book and am very glad that I did.As a new nursing student it is very helpful
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- HELPFUL and RECOMMENDED
I have only had this book a few weeks and I have already used it quite a bit. It is very helpful in getting ready for clinicals and also some class work. I like the way it is organized and the information it contains. I would recommend this book as one that is helpful to buy and that you will use. I'm really glad I followed the advice of the other positive reviewers and purchased it.
Rating: - Gold Standard in Nursing Education
I won't speak long.I am baffled that this book wasn't a required text in my school's Nursing program.I have seen others in my school's library and some that friends refered.But this has the distinction of being both detailed and concise.By concise, I don't mean that the books info is truncated or shortened.However there is more than verbage to satisfy the curiosity of any student while not being over their head.Elsevier-Mosby rocks!
Rating: - Wish I had this book last semester
This is a great book to have for clinicals.It's also a good referencefor case study homework and research papers.
- Excellent care plan book for the new nursing studentI have used 4 other care plan books.It wasn't until I purchased this book that I began getting As on my care plans.Writing goals and outcomes have been the hardest for me, but this book allows me to write them in the way that my faculty want.
- need this bookMy Aunt is a nursing instructor and told me "You have to have an Ackley"so I got the book and am very glad that I did.As a new nursing student it is very helpful
- HELPFUL and RECOMMENDEDI have only had this book a few weeks and I have already used it quite a bit. It is very helpful in getting ready for clinicals and also some class work. I like the way it is organized and the information it contains. I would recommend this book as one that is helpful to buy and that you will use. I'm really glad I followed the advice of the other positive reviewers and purchased it.
- Gold Standard in Nursing Education I won't speak long.I am baffled that this book wasn't a required text in my school's Nursing program.I have seen others in my school's library and some that friends refered.But this has the distinction of being both detailed and concise.By concise, I don't mean that the books info is truncated or shortened.However there is more than verbage to satisfy the curiosity of any student while not being over their head.Elsevier-Mosby rocks!
- Wish I had this book last semesterThis is a great book to have for clinicals.It's also a good referencefor case study homework and research papers.
