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An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care
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Eighth Edition
By
Betty Ackley, MSN, EdS, RN, Professor Emeritus, Jackson Community College; President, The Betty Ackley LLC, Jackson, MI
Gail Ladwig, MSN, RN, CHTP, Professor Emeritus, Jackson Community College; Co-Owner and Nursing Consultant, Holistic Choices; Healing Touch Practitioner, Jackson, MI
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.
Contents
Section I: Nursing Diagnosis, the Nursing Process and Evidence Based Nursing
An explanation of how to make a nursing
diagnosis and plan care using the nursing process and evidence based nursing.
Section II: Guide to Nursing Diagnoses
An
alphabetized list of medical diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, clinical states, symptoms, and problems, with suggested nursing diagnoses.
Section
III: Guide to Planning Care
Complete care planning information for each diagnosis, including definition, defining characteristics,
risk factors, related factors, suggested NOC outcomes, client outcomes, suggested NIC interventions, interventions with rationales, geriatric
interventions (when appropriate), home care interventions, culturally competent nursing interventions (where appropriate), and client/family
teaching. Also includes a pain assessment guide and equianalgesic chart.
Appendixes
Nursing Diagnoses
Arranged by Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
Childhood and Adolescent Immunizations Schedule
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Paperback, 960 pages, publication date: JUN-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-04826-2
ISBN-10: 0-323-04826-9
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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