Concept Mapping: A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning - Softcover

Schuster PhD FNP-BC, Pamela McHugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803638485 ISBN 13: 9780803638488

Publisher: F A Davis Co, 2015

Synopsis

• Provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care.


• Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum.


• Works with or without nursing diagnoses.


• Saves time and improves clinical performance.


• Emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care.


• Teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly.


• Establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, physical assessment data, treatments, medications, laboratory data, and history data.


• Includes access to Davis's Care Planning & Nursing Diagnosis Resource Center. (Click on the Preview tab to view.)


• Makes concept mapping easy to understand and implement with...
  
  
  
  • A podcast that explains concept mapping.
  
  
  • “Test Your Knowledge” quiz” that ensures you understand the theory behind creating a care map.
  
  
  • Case studies that let you practice creating a care map.
  
  
  • Templates for creating a concept care map.
  
  
  • A care map generator online at DavisPlus with clear, concise instructions.
    
  
  
  
  

About this edition

• Publisher: F A Davis Co
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0803638485
• ISBN 13: 9780803638488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 208