Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care / Edition 10

by Betty J. Ackley MSN, EdS, RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN, RN

Overview

The 10th edition of the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook makes formulating nursing diagnoses and creating individualized care plans a breeze. Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, this convenient reference shows you how to build customized care plans in three easy steps: assess, diagnose, plan. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales.

• Unique! Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website offers hands-on practice creating customized plans of care.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.
• Suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
• Recent and classic research examples promote evidence-based interventions and rationales.

• NEW! 4 Color text
• NEW! Includes updated 2012-2014 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses
• NEW! Provides the latest NIC/NOC, interventions, and rationales for every care plan.
• NEW! QSEN Safety interventions and rationales
• NEW! 100 NCLEX exam-style review questions are available on the companion Evolve website.
• NEW! Root Causing Thinking and Motivational Interviewing appendixes on the companion Evolve website.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323085496
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/13/2013
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	912
Product dimensions:	7.95(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary Beth Flynn Makic has more than 30 years of critical care experience in research, evidence-based practice, and clinical education. She is a Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and Program Director for the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist graduate program. She is also a Research Scientist at a Level I trauma center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Makic achieved her BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a focus on trauma patient populations and the advanced practice role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her PhD was conferred in 2007 by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She is active locally and nationally in several professional organizations. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She also serves on the editorial board of several critical care journals, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a successor co-author of two Elsevier books on nursing diagnosis. Dr. Makic is well known for her passion for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice through evidence-based practice.

Table of Contents

Section I: Nursing Diagnosis, the Nursing Process and Evidence Based Nursing

• An explanation of how to make a nursing diagnosis and plan care using the nursing process and evidence based nursing.

Section II: Guide to Nursing Diagnoses

• Includes suggested nursing diagnoses and page references for over 1300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states.

Section III: Guide to Planning Care

• Definitions, defining characteristics, risk factors, related factors, suggested NOC outcomes, client outcomes, suggested NIC interventions, interventions with rationales for each alphabetized nursing diagnosis where appropriate: client/family teaching and discharge planning, geriatric, home care, multicultural, pediatric and safety.

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Carole A. Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF (The College of New Jersey)
Description: This book, one in the growing number of nursing diagnosis texts, is evidence-based. This eighth edition updates the 2006 edition.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a guide for practicing nurses and students that plan care using nursing diagnoses. These worthy objectives are met.
Audience: The audience is practicing nurses and student nurses.
Features: The book's three sections cover nursing diagnosis and the nursing process; nursing diagnoses; and plans of care and include revisions from NANDA, culturally appropriate interventions, and pediatric interventions. This book bases interventions on levels of evidence. Boxed features and symbols indicate geriatric or cultural considerations. There is an accompanying EVOLVE course with exercises that give students the opportunity to practice creating care plans. Electronic resources are available for faculty to enhance teaching-learning.
Assessment: The difference between this and most other books on nursing diagnoses, such as Carpenito-Moyet, Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice, 11th edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006), and Ralph and Taylor's Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, 6th edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005), is that it is focused not on clinical application but rather on evidence to support interventions and outcomes. This edition brings the content up-to-date and certainly enhances its coverage of cultural differences and includes the pediatric age group. Most of the references are older than five years, but for the most part do represent good additional materials.

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