Nursing Diagnosis Manual: Planning, Individualizing, and Documenting Client Care

Here’s the resource you’ll turn to again and again to select the appropriate diagnosis and to plan, individualize, and document care for more than 850 diseases and disorders. Only in Nursing Diagnosis Manual will you find for each diagnosis, defining characteristics presented subjectively and objectively with sample clinical applications to ensure you have selected the appropriate diagnose. Prioritized action/interventions with rationales are also included. Assessment tools to help you select the appropriate diagnosis. Alphabetized monographs for hundreds of diseases and disorders reflecting all specialty areas. Associated nursing diagnoses that are presented by priority and written as client problem/need statements. Unique presentation of action/invention by priority with rationales with icons for cultural, collaborative, diagnostic studies, medications, community/home health, and pediatric/geriatric/lifespan. Documentation section that emphasizes the importance of what and why. Taxonomy information that defines the domain in which the nursing diagnosis belongs, along with the date the nursing diagnosis was approved or revised. Pediatric considerations in the monographs, where appropriate. References to support evidenced-based practice. The most recent evidence-based practice research for interventions and rationales. Nursing interventions based on current practice.