Creating effective nursing care plans is crucial for positive patient outcomes. The Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13th Edition, is your essential resource, expertly designed to guide you through client assessment, accurate nursing diagnosis, and confident care planning. This evidence-based guide employs a streamlined three-step system, making individualized care planning accessible and efficient.
This handbook empowers you to develop strong diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking skills through step-by-step instructions on implementing care and evaluating outcomes. To simplify your workflow, it provides quick access to nursing diagnoses and care plans for over 1450 client symptoms, integrating interventions from NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification) and outcomes from NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification). Edited by renowned nursing educators Mary Beth Flynn Makic and Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, this comprehensive handbook consolidates everything you need for effective nursing care planning into a single, user-friendly volume.
Key Features and Benefits for Effective Care Planning
- Simplified Nursing Process: Sections I and II offer clear guidance through the nursing process, ensuring you can confidently select the most appropriate nursing diagnoses for each patient.
- Step-by-Step Care Plan Creation: Easy-to-follow instructions in the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections empower you to create unique and truly individualized care plans tailored to specific patient needs.
- Comprehensive NANDA-I Coverage: Benefit from complete care plans for every NANDA-International© (NANDA-I©) approved nursing diagnosis, providing a robust foundation for your practice.
- Valuable Online Resources: Enhance your learning with the Evolve website, offering a care plan template, insightful case studies, and comprehensive review questions to solidify your understanding.
- Evidence-Based Practice: Interventions and rationales are grounded in solid research, with studies and references supporting the effectiveness of each recommended intervention, ensuring you are using the most current and reliable practices.
- NIC and NOC Integration: Each care plan includes examples and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, facilitating standardized language and measurable results in patient care.
- Prioritizing Patient Safety and Quality: Dedicated content emphasizes crucial considerations for safe patient care, incorporating QSEN competencies within Section I to promote a culture of safety.
- Adaptable for Diverse Populations: Pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions are thoughtfully integrated where relevant, ensuring care plans are appropriate for a wide range of patient populations and settings.
- Quick and Easy Navigation: The Index of NANDA-I© Diagnoses on the inside back cover and alphabetical thumb tabs allow for rapid access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses, saving you valuable time.
Your Evidence-Based Foundation for Nursing Excellence
This Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is meticulously updated with the latest 2021-2023 NANDA-I© approved nursing diagnoses, reflecting new, revised, and retired diagnoses to ensure you are working with the most current and validated information. The updated content includes class and domain information consistent with the current NANDA-I framework, further enhancing its utility and relevance in today’s nursing practice.
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By choosing Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13th Edition, you are investing in a powerful, evidence-based tool that will enhance your clinical decision-making, improve your care planning skills, and ultimately contribute to providing the highest quality patient care. Make this handbook your trusted companion in your nursing journey.
