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