Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 12th Edition Revised Reprint with 2021-2023 NANDA-I® Updates

by Betty J. Ackley MSN, EdS, RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN, RN, Mary Beth Flynn Makic PhD, RN, CCNS, CCRN, FAAN, FNAP, FCNS, Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz MS, RN, CNE, Melody Zanotti

Overview

Get nursing care plans right! Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 12th Edition Revised Reprint with 2021-2023 NANDA-I^© Updates helps you select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows 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. Revised and updated with 2021-2023 NANDA-I^© approved nursing diagnoses, the book integrates NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to help you create unique, individualized care plans.

• Step-by-step instructions show how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
• UNIQUE! Care plans are provided for NANDA-I^© approved nursing diagnoses.
• Evidence-based interventions and rationales include recent or classic research and references supporting the use of each intervention.
• Examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes are presented in each care plan.
• 150 NCLEX^® exam-style review questions are available on the Evolve website.
• Easy-to-follow Sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• 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.
• List of NANDA-I^© Diagnoses on the inside front cover of the book provides quick reference to page numbers.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.
• Appendixes provide valuable information in an easy-to-access location.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323879880
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	08/02/2021
Edition description:	12th ed.
Pages:	1025
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 9.98(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Section 1 Nursing Process, Clinical Reasoning, Nursing Diagnosis, and Evidence-Based Nursing 1

Section 11 Guide to Nursing Diagnosis 17

Section III Guide to Planning Care 121

Index 991

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