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Nursing diagnosis handbook : an evidence-based guide to planning care / [edited by] Betty J. Ackley, Gail B. Ladwig, Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, Melody Zanotti.

Ackley, Betty J., (editor.). Ladwig, Gail B., (editor.). Makic, Mary Beth Flynn, (editor.). Martinez-Kratz, Marina Reyna, (editor.). Zanotti, Melody, (editor.).

Summary:

Get nursing care plans right! Ackley's Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 12th Edition helps practicing nurses and nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. Extensively revised and updated with the new 2018-2020 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide your students in creating unique, individualized care plans. -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780323551120
ISBN: 0323551122
Physical Description: xviii, 999 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Edition: Twelfth edition.
Publisher: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:	"25 years anniversary"--Cover
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Section 1. Nursing process, clinical reasoning, nursing diagnosis, and evidence-based nursing -- Section 2. Guide to nursing diagnosis -- Section 3. Guide to planning care.