Nursing Care Plans - E-Book

Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes

Meg Gulanick, Judith L. Myers, Collin Bowman-Woodall

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 11
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443124556
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

Master the skills you need to create customized nursing care plans! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, & Outcomes, 11th Edition 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!- NEW! Seven additional care plans cover: - Impaired Skin Integrity- Infection- Underweight- Overflow Incontinence of Urine- Eating Disorders- Brain Tumor- Pancreatic Cancer- NEW! Fully updated coverage includes the latest therapeutic interventions and rationales.- NEW! Full-color format makes this text more user-friendly and accessible.- UPDATED! Using Nursing Care Plans to Individualize and Improve Care chapter 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.- UPDATED! Content reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international clinical practice guidelines.- Care plans for 77 "clinical problems" (formerly "nursing diagnoses") use a conceptual model organization and include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for creating your own individualized care plans.- Care plans for 155 disorders encompass virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system.- Prioritized care planning guidance 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.- Care plan format for clinical problems includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions.- Care plan format by disorder 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.- NEW! Care plan template on the Evolve companion website gives you a starting point for creating your own plans of care.

Table of contents

• Nursing Care Plans : Diagnoses, Interventions, & Outcomes
• 1.  Using nursing care plans to individualize and improve care
• 2.  ICNP nursing diagnosis care plans
• 3.  Patient readiness for health promotion
• 4.  Care plans for clinical problems
• 5.  Cardiac and vascular care plans
• 6.  Pulmonary care plans
• 7.  Neurologic care plans
• 8.  Gastrointestinal and digestive care plans
• 9.  Musculoskeletal care plans
• 10.  Cancer care plans
• 11.  Hematologic and immunologic care plans
• 12.  Renal and urinary tract care plans
• 13.  Men’s and women’s health care plans
• 14.  Endocrine and metabolic care plans
• 15.  Integumentary care plans
• Index
• Quick care plan locator