Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care / Edition 9

by Betty J. Ackley MSN, EdS, RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN, RN

Overview

Get nursing care plans right! Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 12th 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 2018-2020 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the 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 guide your students in creating unique, individualized care plans.

• Step-by-step instructions shows you how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
• UNIQUE! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis
• Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention.
• Presents examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
• 150 NCLEX exam-style review questions are available on Evolve.
• Easy-to-follow sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing
• Appendixes provide you with valuable information in an easy-to-access location.
• 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.
• Classic evidence-based references promote evidence-based interventions and rationales.
• List of Nursing Diagnosis Index on inside front cover of book for quick reference.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

• NEW! Includes comprehensive, up-to-date information on the new 2018-2020 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, complete with 17 new diagnoses.
• NEW! and UPDATED! Provides the latest NIC/NO C, interventions, and rationales for every care plan
• NEW! Section I: Gender identity discussion includes information about the caregiver’s responsibility for adapting care accordingly.
• NEW! Interventions reorganized by priority helps you quickly identify the information you’re searching for.
• NEW! Section II: Bullying, Gender Dysphoria, Medical marijuana, Military families/personnel, Opioid use/abuse, Service animals, Technology addiction, and Veterans.
• NEW! Additional clarification of use of QSEN throughout book in Section I
• NEW! Concept map creator added from Yoost textbook. 
• NEW! Updated rationales include evidence-based references 5 years or less.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323071505
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/18/2010
Pages:	960
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.50(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 I:  Nursing Diagnosis, the Nursing Process and Evidence-Based Nursing An explanation of how to make a nursing diagnosis and plan care using the nursing process and evidence-based nursing.

Section II:  Guide to Nursing Diagnoses Includes suggested nursing diagnoses and page references for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states.

Section III:  Guide to Planning Care The definition, defining characteristics, risk factors, related factors, suggested NOC outcomes, client outcomes, suggested NIC interventions, interventions with rationales, geriatric interventions (when appropriate), home care interventions, culturally competent nursing interventions where appropriate, client/family teaching, and websites (when available) for client education for each alphabetized nursing diagnosis. Also includes a pain assessment guide and equianalgesic chart.

Appendixes Nursing Diagnoses Arranged by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Nursing Diagnoses Arranged by Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Wellness-Oriented Diagnostic Categories A Guide to Using Equianalgesic Charts

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Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Carole A. Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF (The College of New Jersey)
Description: This book, one in the growing number of nursing diagnosis texts, is evidence-based. This eighth edition updates the 2006 edition.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a guide for practicing nurses and students that plan care using nursing diagnoses. These worthy objectives are met.
Audience: The audience is practicing nurses and student nurses.
Features: The book's three sections cover nursing diagnosis and the nursing process; nursing diagnoses; and plans of care and include revisions from NANDA, culturally appropriate interventions, and pediatric interventions. This book bases interventions on levels of evidence. Boxed features and symbols indicate geriatric or cultural considerations. There is an accompanying EVOLVE course with exercises that give students the opportunity to practice creating care plans. Electronic resources are available for faculty to enhance teaching-learning.
Assessment: The difference between this and most other books on nursing diagnoses, such as Carpenito-Moyet, Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice, 11th edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006), and Ralph and Taylor's Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, 6th edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005), is that it is focused not on clinical application but rather on evidence to support interventions and outcomes. This edition brings the content up-to-date and certainly enhances its coverage of cultural differences and includes the pediatric age group. Most of the references are older than five years, but for the most part do represent good additional materials.

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