Convenient and easy to use. Intuitive organization and pocket-sized format gives nurses access to fast answers anywhere, in any care setting.
Prepares nurses to participate in diagnoses more effectively. Introduces and explains each essential concept and technique associated with effective nursing diagnosis.
Includes complete, easy-to-individualize plans of care for each NANDA International nursing diagnosis. Presents comprehensive care plans, allowing nurses to select specific content according to the patient’s condition and situation. Each nursing diagnosis includes related factors or risk factors that make it easy to individualize care plans to each patient’s situation.
UPDATED: Gives nurses the newest and most authoritative information for effective diagnosis. Reflects the latest NANDA diagnoses—adding 25 new NANDA-I diagnoses for 2015-2017 and removing 7 that NANDA has declared obsolete.
UPDATED: Prepares nurses to utilize the latest research- and evidence-based information on nursing interventions and outcomes. Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) interventions reflect the continuing work of the Iowa Interventions Project. Updated Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC) outcomes are included.
Lists all key medical, surgical, psychiatric, perinatal, and pediatric conditions, with accompanying nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems commonly associated with those conditions. Organized to help nurses quickly begin the care planning process with either a medical condition or a nursing diagnosis.
Provides practical suggestions for using NANDA international diagnoses. Clarifies NANDA’s nursing diagnosis labels and helps nurses use them more effectively and appropriately.
Makes it easier for nurses to understand and use NANDA subjective or objective defining characteristics. Alphabetizes diagnostic cues and categorizes them as subjective or objective, following current NANDA practice.
Simplifies access to assessment, teaching, and collaborative nursing activities, and helps to ensure that nurses consider each category of activity. Organizes nursing activities under these headings: Assessments, Patient/Family Teaching, Collaborative Activities, and Other.
Helps nurses participate more effectively in multidisciplinary care teams utilizing Critical Paths. Gives nurses up-to-date information on Critical Paths, including an example format for a multidisciplinary care plan.
Includes features to help ensure that nurses consider all key issues associated with each patient’s situation. Provides a perforated care planning checklist on the back cover to help nurses evaluate finished care plans for completeness and suitability.
Helps nurses participate more effectively in interventions involving families, communities, and health care teams. Content on family, community, and collaborative nursing interventions and activities is included throughout the text’s Goals/Evaluation Criteria Examples section
Prepares nurses for the reality that the majority of today’s patients are older adults, and that a growing percentage of care is provided in the home. Includes a section in each care plan for nursing activities that focus on older adults and home care issues.
UPDATED: Gives nurses access to up-to-date sources for further exploration and deeper mastery. The bibliography for each diagnosis is thoroughly updated.

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