Summary:
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.
- Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports
the use of each intervention.
- Unique! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis .
- Includes step-by-step instructions on how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide
to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
- Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions as necessary for plans of
care.
- Includes examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
- Allows quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses with alphabetical thumb tabs.
- Unique! Includes a Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website for hands-on practice in creating
customized plans of care.
- Includes the new 2009-2011 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses including 21 new and 8 revised diagnoses.
- Illustrates the Problem-Etiology-Symptom format with an easy-to-follow, colored-coded box
Often purchased with Nursing Diagnosis Handbook 10th edition
Other Editions of Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: