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

Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 11th Edition helps practicing nurses and nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. Extensively revised and updated with the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide you in creating unique, individualized care plans.

• Comprehensive, up-to-date information on all the 2015-2017 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses so you stay in the know.
• UNIQUE! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis plus two unique care plans for Hearing Loss and Vision Loss.
• Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, client/family teaching and discharge planning, home care, and safety interventions as necessary for plans of care.
• Presents examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
• UNIQUE! Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website offers hands-on practice creating customized plans of care.
• 150 NCLEX exam-style review questions are available on Evolve.
• Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention.
• Classic evidence-based references promote evidence-based interventions and rationales.
• Clear, concise interventions are usually only a sentence or two long and use no more than two references.
• Safety content emphasizes what must be considered to provide safe patient care.
• Step-by-step instructions show you how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
• List of Nursing Diagnosis Index in back inside cover of book for quick reference.  
• Three-column index is easy to use.
• Easy-to-follow sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selecting appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

• NEW! Includes the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, compete with 26 new diagnoses.
• NEW and UPDATED! Provides the latest NIC/NOC, interventions, and rationales for every care plan.
• EXPANDED! Additional information on concept based nursing and major nursing theories provides you with the knowledge you need for clinical success.
• EXPANDED! New content on QSEN, safety, and risk for infection keeps you up to date.
• NEW! In-depth coverage of wellness and primary prevention stresses the importance of health and wellness.
• NEW! Appendixes in the text provide you with valuable information in an easy-to-access location.
• NEW! Revised references in APA style.

Mary Beth Flynn Makic has more than 30 years of critical care experience in research, evidence-based practice, and clinical education. She is a Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and Program Director for the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist graduate
program. She is also a Research Scientist at a Level I trauma center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Makic
achieved her BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a focus on trauma patient populations and the advanced practice role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her PhD was conferred in 2007 by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She is active locally and nationally in several professional organizations. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She also serves on the editorial board of several critical care journals, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a successor co-author of two Elsevier books on nursing diagnosis. Dr. Makic is well known for her passion for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice through evidence-based practice.