Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span

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