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In its ninth edition, this venerable textbook consists of a comprehensive and detailed evidence-based care planning guide for nurses and nursing students. Ackley, a nursing consultant who has served in various nursing positions and has taught at Jackson Community College, and Ladwig, a nurse who retired from teaching at Jackson Community College, outline a step-by-step approach to diagnosis and care planning, along with diagnoses for 1450 client symptoms, procedures, clinical states, and problems, and suggested care plans for these diagnoses. This edition includes 21 new 2009-2011 NANDA-International approved nursing diagnoses, eight revisions of diagnoses, and six deleted ones; Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competencies; integrated Nursing Interventions Classification and Nursing Outcomes Classification taxonomies; independent and collaborative nursing interventions; evidence-based rationales with an emphasis on nursing research; coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations; and home care and client/family teaching instructions for each condition. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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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 to help you in formulating diagnostic statements.Explains the difference between the three types of nursing diagnoses.Expands information explaining the difference between actual and potential problems in performing an assessment.Adds detailed information on the multidisciplinary and collaborative aspect of nursing and how it affects care planning.Shows how care planning is used in everyday nursing practice to provide effective nursing care.
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