Concept Mapping: A Clinical Judgment Approach to Patient Care

Looking for an easier path to care planning? Create a map! Concept mapping is a clear, visual, and systematic model for gathering and categorizing relevant assessment data, identifying patient problems, and developing patient goals, interventions, and outcomes for each nursing diagnosis. A concept map is your guide to nursing care in any clinical setting. You'll also find a wealth of care planning resources, including a concept map generator online. Key features:: - Provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care. - Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum. - Works with or without nursing diagnoses. - Saves time and improves clinical performance. - Emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care. - Teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly. - Establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, physical assessment data, treatments, medications, laboratory data, and history data. - Makes concept mapping easy to understand and implement with… - Case studies that let you practice creating a care map. - Templates for creating a concept care map. - A care map generator online with clear, concise instructions. Instructor resources:: digital version, classroom & lecture planning resources, previous edition resources. Includes case studies, instructor guide, PowerPoint slides Student resources:: Templates for concept mapping and care plans, case studies