Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care |  | Authors: Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN CHTP
Publisher: Mosby
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ISBN: 0323071503
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Use this convenient resource to formulate nursing diagnoses and create individualized care plans! Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 9th Edition shows you how to build customized care plans using a three-step process: assess, diagnose, and plan care. It includes suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) information to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales.
- Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention.
- Unique! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
- Includes step-by-step instructions on how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
- Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions as necessary for plans of care.
- Includes examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
- Allows quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses with alphabetical thumb tabs.
- Unique! Includes a Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website for hands-on practice in creating customized plans of care.
- Includes the new 2009-2011 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses including 21 new and 8 revised diagnoses.
- Illustrates the Problem-Etiology-Symptom format with an easy-to-follow, colored-coded box to help you in formulating diagnostic statements.
- Explains the difference between the three types of nursing diagnoses.
- Expands information explaining the difference between actual and potential problems in performing an assessment.
- Adds detailed information on the multidisciplinary and collaborative aspect of nursing and how it affects care planning.
- Shows how care planning is used in everyday nursing practice to provide effective nursing care.
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 DO NOT BUY FROM THIS VENDOR: COLLEGE DIRECT June 27, 2010
Anonymous
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To make a long story short, College Direct never delivered my textbook. When I tried to get my money back,they told me to sort it out with the post office and my apartment complex. They would not give me a refund for a package they claim to have delivered. They have a poor customer service department. I would try buying from other vendors, before using any of their services. Remember, if your package gets lost in transit, they will not give you a refund, buyer be warned.
 Makes care plans much easier June 24, 2010
C. McClain (TX)
It took me awhile to order the book even though it was required for one of my classes. I was waiting on the newer edition to come out, but oh well. All I can say is that using this book makes formulating care plans so much easier! It is broken down in alpha order by the first letter of the diagnosis. It includes all you pretty much need to make an good care plan. Of course, the basics should have already been covered in lass, but in case you weren't fortunate enough to get all the goods on how to make a care plan, there are resources online that accompany the book to help with that. There is also like an introduction to care plans in the beginning of the book. I like this book. I haven't seen any other care plan books, so I can't say how good it is compared to others. However, I did have to subtract a star because some of the sources they use to back up their evidence is old. When you're trying to support your evidence based practice in your care plan, you have to look up a whole new article, if available, because an article from 1998 is way too old and the teacher won't accept it. Other than that, fine!
Excellent seller June 10, 2010
Grace Faith (Oklahoma City, OK USA)
I needed to purchase this book for the nursing program I start in the fall. The book's condition is as described and it came quickly! Have not used it yet, so we shall see how well it is written.
 Health Science Library Editor's Recommendation June 4, 2010
KSR Medical Arts Editor (New York, USA)
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Health Science Library Editor's Recommendation
This is an excellent text however we recommend Physical Signs in Medicine and Surgery: An Atlas of Rare, Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs as it is the most comprehensive resource available for practitioners and students in the clinical fields. Whether you are studying medicine, dentistry, nursing, or veterinary science the answers to even the most difficult diagnosis are in this Atlas. After you begin to use it, it can replace a half dozen books that cover physical signs. This awesome clinical text and a scut monkey house manual are all you will need for even the toughest residency and you will continue to reference it for years into the future. It is the - Must Have Book - for learning differential diagnosis.
Far superior to the Cox Nursing Diagnosis book May 21, 2010
David Deeds (Sedalia, MO, US)
I was instructed to purchase the Fifth Edition of Cox's Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis book for my program and it is a waste of money. This Ninth Edition of Ackley's book is far superior in nearly every way.
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