Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care / Edition 12

by Betty J. Ackley

Overview

Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 11th 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 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide you in creating unique, individualized care plans.

• Comprehensive, up-to-date information on all the 2015-2017 NANDA-I nursing diagnoses so you stay in the know.
• UNIQUE! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis plus two unique care plans for Hearing Loss and Vision Loss.
• Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, client/family teaching and discharge planning, home care, and safety interventions as necessary for plans of care.
• Presents examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes in each care plan.
• UNIQUE! Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve website offers hands-on practice creating customized plans of care.
• 150 NCLEX exam-style review questions are available on Evolve.
• Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention.
• Classic evidence-based references promote evidence-based interventions and rationales.
• 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.
• Step-by-step instructions show you how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
• List of Nursing Diagnosis Index in back inside cover of book for quick reference.   
• Three-column index is easy to use.
• Easy-to-follow sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selecting appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

• NEW! Includes the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, compete with 26 new diagnoses.
• NEW and UPDATED! Provides the latest NIC/NOC, interventions, and rationales for every care plan.
• EXPANDED! Additional information on concept based nursing and major nursing theories provides you with the knowledge you need for clinical success.
• EXPANDED! New content on QSEN, safety, and risk for infection keeps you up to date.
• NEW! In-depth coverage of wellness and primary prevention stresses the importance of health and wellness.
• NEW! Appendixes in the text provide you with valuable information in an easy-to-access location.
• NEW! Revised references in APA style.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900323551129
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Pages:	1025
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

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 1300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states.

Section III: Guide to Planning Care

• Definitions, defining characteristics, risk factors, related factors, suggested NOC outcomes, client outcomes, suggested NIC interventions, interventions with rationales for each alphabetized nursing diagnosis where appropriate: client/family teaching and discharge planning, geriatric, home care, multicultural, pediatric and safety.

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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