Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

The 10th edition of the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook makes formulating nursing diagnoses and creating individualized care plans a breeze. Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, this convenient reference shows you how to build customized care plans in three easy steps: assess, diagnose, plan. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales.

• Unique! Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website offers hands-on practice creating customized plans of care.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.
• Suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
• Recent and classic research examples promote evidence-based interventions and rationales.

• Includes the new 2009-2011 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses including 21 new and 8 revised diagnoses.
• Illustrates the Problem-Etiology-Symptom format with an easy-to-follow, colored-coded box to help you in formulating diagnostic statements.
• Explains the difference between the three types of nursing diagnoses.
  
• Expands information explaining the difference between actual and potential problems in performing an assessment.
• Adds detailed information on the multidisciplinary and collaborative aspect of nursing and how it affects care planning.
• Shows how care planning is used in everyday nursing practice to provide effective nursing care.