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An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care
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Ninth 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
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.
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
Includes suggested nursing diagnoses and page references for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric
diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states.
Section III: Guide to Planning Care
The
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, client/family teaching, and websites (when available) for client education for each alphabetized nursing diagnosis.
Also includes a pain assessment guide and equianalgesic chart.
Appendixes
Nursing Diagnoses Arranged by Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs
Nursing Diagnoses Arranged by Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
Wellness-Oriented Diagnostic Categories
A
Guide to Using Equianalgesic Charts
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 1024 pages, publication date: FEB-2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-07150-5
Imprint: MOSBY
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029/241
Last update: 19 Nov 2009
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