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All-in-One Care Planning Resource by
The only book with nursing care plans for all core clinical areas, All-In-One Care Planning Resource, 3rd Edition, provides 100 care plans with the nursing diagnoses and interventions you need to know to care for patients in all settings. It includes care plans for pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric nursing in addition to medical-surgical nursing, so you can use just one book throughout your entire nursing curriculum. A new online care plan tutorial walks you through the steps of creating care plans, and updates keep you current with the latest clinical developments, new pharmacologic treatments, QSEN patient safety standards, and evidence-based practice guidelines. Edited by Pamela Swearingen, this book is known for its clear, straightforward approach, its practical and consistent format, and its detailed rationales. Updates from clinical experts ensure the most current, accurate, and clinically relevant content available. A consistent format for each care plan allows faster lookup of key content, with headings for Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Nursing Diagnoses, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, and Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning. Color-coded sections for medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, and psychiatric nursing make it easy to find information quickly. Prioritized nursing diagnoses are listed in order of importance and physiologic need. A two-column format for nursing assessments/interventions and rationales makes it easier to scan information. Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help you to apply concepts to clinical practice. Outcome criteria with specific timelines help you to set realistic goals for nursing outcomes and provide quality, cost-effective care. NANDA-I taxonomy updates keep you current with NANDA-I terminology and current diagnoses. Updated content covers the latest clinical developments, new pharmacologic treatments, QSEN patient safety standards, and evidence-based practice guidelines. 16 new and updated NANDA-I nursing diagnoses include adult failure to thrive, chronic confusion, risk for shock, interrupted breastfeeding, and impaired environmental interpretation syndrome. Unique! The companion Evolve website includes a narrated online care planning tutorial with step-by-step guidance on how to create accurate and comprehensive care plans.
Nursing Care Planning Guides by
This practical, comprehensive resource helps nurses plan individualized care for clients in the medical-surgical, extended care, or home care environments. It covers over 70 individual disorders, with detailed care plans that feature a definition/discussion of the disorder, outcome/discharge criteria, nursing and collaborative diagnoses, desired outcomes, nursing actions and selected purposes/rationales, NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, and discharge teaching. This book also includes the popular Online Care Planner that allows users to edit and print 48 standardized nursing diagnosis care plans. Content presents an expanded focus of care beyond the hospital setting to provide broader application in extended care and home care settings. 70 comprehensive medical-surgical care plans are included - the most extensive care plans content available. Guidelines for individualizing care plans using a case study format are provided. Body system organization makes content easy to locate. A comprehensive, color-tabbed unit contains 24 nursing diagnoses care plans with referrals to this content in the disorders-specific care plans. Nursing/collaborative diagnoses are linked to actions and rationales in a user-friendly, two-column format. Specific points for discharge teaching serve as guidelines for nurses in planning client education. A complete discussion of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging help readers understand the unique considerations of caring for this population group. Separate discussions of surgical, immobile, and dying clients provide a complete perspective on these special clients. An alphabetical listing of NANDA diagnoses inside the book's front cover helps readers locate specific care plans and nursing and collaborative diagnoses. A new, two-color design makes the text even more user-friendly and visually appealing. Rationales for nursing actions are italicized in the text for emphasis. An Online Care Planner allows users to edit and print 48 standardized nursing diagnoses care plans or individualized plans of care. Client outcomes and discharge readiness are emphasized, including an Outcome/Discharge Criteria heading. A new care plan on Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator focuses on the adult client admitted for implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator. A new care plan on Pacemaker Implantation focuses on the adult client with a symptomatic dysrhythmia hospitalized for implantation of a permanent pacemaker. LA new care plan on Acute Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Bleed focuses on the adult client hospitalized with a massive upper GI bleed. Updated NIC interventions and NOC outcomes for each condition are highlighted in a second color. Thoroughly updated and edited content is provided throughout, including expanded outcomes. The latest (2003-2004) NANDA-approved nursing and collaborative diagnoses describe the actual or potential health problems that a client with a particular condition may experience. Drug-herb interactions have been added to address patients' increased use of complementary and alternative medicines. Updated NOC outcomes and NIC interventions are listed for the nursing diagnoses in each care plan.
Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span by
Offers step-by-step guidance the readers need to develop individualized plans of care, while also honing their critical thinking and analytical skills. This title features over 164 care plans which reflect the NANDA diagnoses and terminology.
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NCLEX-RN 2017 Strategies, Practice and Review with Practice Test by 
Lippincott Q&A Review NCLEX-RN
