Nursing Care Planning Guides: For Adults in Acute, Extended and Home Care Settings Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Nursing Care Planning Guides: For Adults in Acute, Extended and Home Care Settings Book

This practical, comprehensive resource helps nurses plan individualized care for clients in the medical-surgical, extended care, or home care environments. It covers over 70 individual disorders, with detailed care plans that feature a definition/discussion of the disorder, outcome/discharge criteria, nursing and collaborative diagnoses, desired outcomes, nursing actions and selected purposes/rationales, NIC interventions and NOC outcomes, and discharge teaching. This book also includes the popular Online Care Planner that allows users to edit and print 48 standardized nursing diagnosis care plans.Content presents an expanded focus of care beyond the hospital setting to provide broader application in extended care and home care settings.70 comprehensive medical-surgical care plans are included - the most extensive care plans content available.Guidelines for individualizing care plans using a case study format are provided.Body system organization makes content easy to locate.A comprehensive, color-tabbed unit contains 24 nursing diagnoses care plans with referrals to this content in the disorders-specific care plans.Nursing/collaborative diagnoses are linked to actions and rationales in a user-friendly, two-column format.Specific points for discharge teaching serve as guidelines for nurses in planning client education.A complete discussion of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging help readers understand the unique considerations of caring for this population group.Separate discussions of surgical, immobile, and dying clients provide a complete perspective on these special clients.An alphabetical listing of NANDA diagnoses inside the book's front cover helps readers locate specific care plans and nursing and collaborative diagnoses.A new, two-color design makes the text even more user-friendly and visually appealing.Rationales for nursing actions are italicized in the text for emphasis.An Online Care Planner allows users to edit and print 48 standardized nursing diagnoses care plans or individualized plans of care.Client outcomes and discharge readiness are emphasized, including an Outcome/Discharge Criteria heading. A new care plan on Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator focuses on the adult client admitted for implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator.A new care plan on Pacemaker Implantation focuses on the adult client with a symptomatic dysrhythmia hospitalized for implantation of a permanent pacemaker.LA new care plan on Acute Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Bleed focuses on the adult client hospitalized with a massive upper GI bleed.Updated NIC interventions and NOC outcomes for each condition are highlighted in a second color.Thoroughly updated and edited content is provided throughout, including expanded outcomes.The latest (2003-2004) NANDA-approved nursing and collaborative diagnoses describe the actual or potential health problems that a client with a particular condition may experience.Drug-herb interactions have been added to address patients' increased use of complementary and alternative medicines.Updated NOC outcomes and NIC interventions are listed for the nursing diagnoses in each care plan.Read More

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