Updated with NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2018-20. The all-in-one care planning resource! Here's the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You'll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features: Client assessment database for each medical condition Complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority Diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean Actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales NANDA, NIC, and NOC's most recent guidelines and terminology Evidence-based citations Index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders Instructor resources: Ebook, medical/surgical, psychiatric, maternal/newborn care plans, nursing diagnosis arranged by Maslow's Heirarchy, previous edition resources Student resources: Disorder look-up, interactive assessment tool, concept map generator, care plan template, bibliography, medical/surgical, psychiatric, maternal/newborn care plans

Identify interventions to plan, individualize, and document care. Updated with the latest diagnoses and interventions from NANDA-I 2021-2023, here's the resource you'll turn to again and again to select the appropriate diagnosis and to plan, individualize, and document care for more than 800 diseases and disorders. Only in the Nursing Diagnosis Manual will you find for each diagnosis...defining characteristics presented subjectively and objectively - sample clinical applications to ensure you have selected the appropriate diagnoses - prioritized action/interventions with rationales - a documentation section, and much more! Includes: Assessment tools to help you select the appropriate diagnosis. Alphabetized monographs for hundreds of diseases and disorders reflecting all specialty areas. Associated nursing diagnoses that are presented by priority and written as client problem/need statements. NIC and NOC linkages with each diagnosis.</,li> Unique presentation of action/invention by priority with rationales...with icons for cultural * collaborative * diagnostic studies * medications * community/home health * pediatric/geriatric/lifespan. Documentation section that emphasizes the importance of what and why. Taxonomy information that defines the domain in which the nursing diagnosis belongs, along with the date the nursing diagnosis was approved or revised. Pediatric considerations in the monographs, where appropriate. References to support evidenced-based practice. Detachable, laminated, pocket-minder bookmark on the inside back cover. New & Updated! The latest diagnoses and updated interventions from NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2021-2023, 12th Edition, including 46 new diagnoses and 67 revised diagnoses, the most current NANDA-I terminology, and labels from NIC and NOC that link content to nursing diagnosis, and statistic data. Updated & Expanded! The most recent evidence-based practice research for interventions and rationales. Revised! Streamlined preface that focuses on how to use the book. Added & Revised! Nursing interventions based on current practice.