Empower your nursing practice with the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 10th Edition, a vital resource designed to enhance your clinical decision-making and care planning skills. This comprehensive handbook is an indispensable tool for both practicing nurses and nursing students seeking to master the complexities of nursing diagnoses and develop effective, individualized care plans.
This user-friendly guide simplifies the process of selecting appropriate nursing diagnoses by correlating them with patient assessments, medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and treatment plans. Updated with the latest NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, this 10th edition integrates the recognized NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and crucial considerations for diverse patient populations, including adult, pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural clients, as well as home care and family teaching needs.
Inside, you’ll discover:
- Comprehensive and Current NANDA-I Diagnoses: Stay up-to-date with the most recent 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, ensuring you are using the latest standards in your practice.
- Extensive Care Plans: Access detailed care plans for each NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis, providing a solid foundation for creating personalized patient care strategies. Unique care plans for specific conditions like Hearing Loss and Vision Loss offer targeted guidance.
- Holistic Patient Considerations: Incorporate essential factors into your planning with integrated pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, client/family teaching, discharge planning, home care, and safety interventions tailored to diverse patient needs.
- NIC Interventions and NOC Outcomes: Each care plan features examples of suggested Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) interventions and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) outcomes, facilitating effective and measurable care planning.
- Evidence-Based Practice Integration: Strengthen your practice with evidence-based interventions and rationales, supported by references to both recent and foundational research. Concise and clear intervention descriptions, typically just a sentence or two, make application straightforward.
- Emphasis on Safety: Prioritize patient safety with dedicated safety content highlighting critical considerations for delivering secure and effective care.
- Step-by-Step Guidance: Navigate the nursing process with ease using clear, step-by-step instructions that guide you through the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections, empowering you to create individualized care plans efficiently.
- Quick Reference Tools: Utilize the List of Nursing Diagnosis Index located on the inside back cover for rapid access to diagnoses. The user-friendly three-column index further enhances searchability. Alphabetical thumb tabs allow for swift location of specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.
This Tenth Edition features significant enhancements, including:
- New and Updated Content: Benefit from the inclusion of the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, along with the latest NIC/NOC updates, interventions, and rationales for every care plan.
- Expanded Foundational Knowledge: Gain deeper insights with expanded information on concept-based nursing and major nursing theories, crucial for building a strong theoretical framework for clinical practice.
- Enhanced Focus on Key Healthcare Priorities: Stay current with expanded content on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), safety protocols, and infection risk management.
- Wellness and Prevention Emphasis: Recognize the growing importance of proactive healthcare with new in-depth coverage of wellness and primary prevention strategies.
- Convenient Appendixes: Access valuable information quickly and easily with dedicated appendixes located directly within the text.
- Updated References: Ensure scholarly rigor with revised references presented in the APA style.
The Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 10th Edition is your essential companion for developing confidence and competence in nursing diagnosis and care planning. Enhance your ability to provide patient-centered care grounded in evidence-based practice.
