Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis - E-Book

by Gail B. Ladwig, Betty J. Ackley

Overview

This pocket-sized reference is ideal for use in clinicals, in class, and at the bedside! A condensed version of the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 9th Edition, Mosby's Guide to Nursing Diagnosis uses a quick-access format to help students make nursing diagnoses and write care plans with confidence and ease. It includes the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, and a guide to creating care plans including desired outcomes, interventions, and patient teaching.

• Unique! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.
• Allows quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses with alphabetical thumb tabs.
• Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions as necessary for plans of care, with home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.
• A pocket size makes this book easy to carry and use in clinicals, in class, or at the bedside.

• Unique! Includes the new 2009-2011 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses including 21 new and 9 revised diagnoses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323089197
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	01/31/2013
Series:	Early Diagnosis in Cancer
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	904
File size:	5 MB

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Carole Ann Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN (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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