Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis / Edition 6

by Gail B. Ladwig

Overview

Updated and easy-to-use, Mosby’s Guide to Nursing Diagnosis, 5th Edition is ideal for use in clinicals, in class, and at the bedside! This pocket-sized reference book is a condensed version Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 11th Edition that helps you diagnose and formulate care plans with confidence and ease. It includes the 2015-17 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses based on more than 1,300 specific symptoms and a step-by-step guide to creating care plans, featuring desired outcomes, interventions, and patient teaching. Plus, alphabetic thumb tabs allow for quick and easy access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

• UNIQUE! 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses 
• Alphabetical thumb tabs
• Pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning interventions
• Pocketsize portability 
• Nursing Diagnoses Index

• UNIQUE! Includes the 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses 
• UNIQUE! Includes care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis, with pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning interventions
• Alphabetical thumb tabs provide quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses
• Pocketsize portability makes this book easy to carry and use in clinicals, in class, or at the bedside.
• Nursing Diagnoses Index on the inside front and back cover

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900323551105
Publication date:	06/27/2019
Pages:	960
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Section I.  Guide to Nursing Diagnoses
Section II.  Guide to Planning Care

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Carole A. Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF (The College of New Jersey)
Description: This is a quick reference to nursing diagnoses and care plan guides. The first edition was published in 2006.
Purpose: It is intended as a portable resource for nursing diagnoses and planning care.
Audience: This guide is perfect for practicing nurses and students. The authors are credible authorities in planning care.
Features: The book starts with a comprehensive list of nursing diagnoses and then moves into a guide for planning care. It uses color-coded, alphabetized, right handed indexes, making the sections easy to locate. The second section follows the format of the nursing diagnosis, definition, defining characteristics, related factors, client outcomes, nursing interventions, special considerations for pediatric or geriatric clients, then implications for home care, and finally client/family teaching. Two symbols are used to indicate whether the intervention is independent or collaborative, helping guide nurses with care planning.
Assessment: There are many nursing diagnosis books on the market. For example, Carpenito-Moyet's Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice, 12th edition (Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, 2008), focuses on application to clinical practice and is comprehensive, but too big to easily carry to clinical. This guide is a companion to the authors' larger Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 8th edition (Elsevier, 2008). This second edition presents the most current NANDA approved diagnoses. The book is high quality and very user-friendly.

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