Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Patient Care, Edition 6

By Mary Frances Moorhouse, Marilynn E. Doenges, Alice Geissler-Murr, et al.

Book Overview

-- Comprehensive guidelines for nursing care plans encompass total patient needs, including the physical aspect as well as cultural, sexual, nutritional, and psychosocial needs-- Changes through the 13th NANDA conference-- NIC/NOC labels show linkages to nursing diagnoses-- Critical thinking emphasized throughout, promoting thoughtful decision making and better individualization of care-- Includes a variety of care maps to illustrate the use of clinical pathways, differentiate them from care plans, and familiarize students with what they will encounter in the hospital-- Variations for the community and home care settings have been added to accurately reflect today's healthcare environment-- Comprehensive guidelines for nursing care plans encompass total patient needs, including the physical aspect as well as cultural, sexual, nutritional, and psychosocial needs-- All nursing interventions include corresponding scientific rationales, and DRGs are identified with projected length of stay-- New care plan on post-transplant nursing care-- Includes documentation requirements of government regulations and third-party payers and the latest JCAHO and ANA standards-- Care plans list the potential complications (related concerns) associated with various conditions-- The free CD-ROM offers: -- 191 diseases/conditions with hundreds of care plans: 105 medical-surgical; 35 psychiatric; and 51 maternal/newborn-- the capability to print preprinted care plans or customize by printing plans before seeing a patient and having the information available at user's fingertips-- editing options that enable the user to cut, copy, and paste

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803609450
• ISBN13: 9780803609457
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: F. A. Davis
• Length: 873 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nursing Care Plans

Being a nursing student in my first semester of clinicals this book really helped me to come up with the proper diagnosis and care plans for my patients. It helped to understand how nursing care plans actually worked for the patients when properly used.

very good book

This book is the best have seen so far when it comes to writing a care plan. It is well detailed and was like a solution to all my problems

lilangeltee

This book is AWESOME!!!! This book has everything you need. If I didnt have this book, I would have never passed my careplans. I got all A's on my careplans. Great book. Better then what my school recommended to use as references.

Better than Ever !

This widely used reference book can be used by nurses to guide in the construction of nursing care plans.This edition includes care plan guidelines for disasters: natural and man-made.

the definitive book on nursing care plans

This text details a comprehensive approach to patient care using nursing care plans.