Nursing Care Plans

Master the skills you need to create customized nursing care plans! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, <b>Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, Eleventh</b><b> Edition</b> features 232 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features ICNP diagnoses, highlighted QSEN competencies, and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are a full-color format, seven new care plans, and a new online care plan template that makes it easier to create care plans. The #1 care planning book is better than ever and will help you learn to think like a nurse!<ul><li><b>NEW! Seven</b> <b>additional care</b> plans cover: <ul><li>Impaired Skin Integrity</li><li>Infection</li><li>Underweight</li><li>Overflow Incontinence of Urine</li><li>Eating Disorders</li><li>Brain Tumor</li><li>Pancreatic Cancer</li></ul></li><li><b>NEW! Fully updated coverage</b> includes the latest therapeutic interventions and rationales</li><li><b>NEW! Full-color format</b> makes this text more user-friendly and accessible</li><li><b>UPDATED! <i>Using Nursing Care Plans to Individualize and Improve Care</i> chapter</b> features more illustrations to help you understand the components of a care plan, as well as how to prioritize those which are most appropriate for your patients</li><li><b>UPDATED! Content</b> reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international clinical practice guidelines</li><li><b>Care plans for 77 &ldquo;clinical problems&rdquo;</b> (formerly &ldquo;nursing diagnoses&rdquo;) use a conceptual model organization and include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for creating your own individualized care plans</li><li><b>Care plans for 155 disorders</b> encompass virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system</li><li><b>Prioritized care planning guidance </b>internally organizes care plans from "actual" to "risk for" clinical problems, from general to specific interventions, and from independent to collaborative/interprofessional interventions to help you prioritize the most important, therapeutic interventions</li><li><b>Care plan format for clinical problems</b> includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions</li><li><b>Care plan format by disorder</b> includes synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a definition, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant clinical problem</li><li><b>NEW! Care plan template</b> on the Evolve companion website gives you a starting point for creating your own plans of care</li></ul>