Nursing care plans : guidelines for individualizing client care across the life span

Doenges, Marilynn E. 1922- (author.). Moorhouse, Mary Frances, 1947- (author.). Murr, Alice C., 1946- (author.).

Summary: Here's the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You'll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features: client assessment database for each medical condition; complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority; diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean; actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales; NANDA, NIC, and NOC's most recent guidelines and terminology; evidence-based citations; and index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders. -- From product description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803660861
ISBN: 0803660863
ISBN: 9780803694958
ISBN: 0803694954
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 1016 pages ; 28 cm
Edition: 10th edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The nursing process: planning care using critical thinking -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Respiratory disorders -- Neurological/sensory disorders -- Gastrointestinal disorders -- Metabolic and endocrine disorders -- Diseases of the blood/blood-forming organs -- Renal and urinary tract disorders -- Women's health -- Men's health -- Orthopedic disorders -- Integumentary disorders -- Systemic infections and immunological disorders -- General.