Powell's Books - Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care 7th Edition by

Don't Miss

More at Powell's

Guests | December 7, 2009

The Cornucopia of Home Science

0 comments By Theodore Gray

Reading old books of science experiments for children, it's easy to become nostalgic for the days when you could buy jugs of sulfur and mercury at... Continue »

$20.96 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray

This item may be
out of stock.
Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.

Check for Availability

Receive an email when this ISBN is available used.

Other titles in the Nursing Diagnosis Handbook series:

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care 7th Edition

ISBN13: 9780323036641
ISBN10: 0323036643
All Product Details

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This bestselling reference helps users make nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. It helps nurses correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. This extensively revised and updated edition presents the most up-to-date information on all 2005-2006 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses. Youll also appreciate the handbooks integration of both the NIC and NOC taxonomies; evidence-based nursing interventions; home care; client/family teaching; and multicultural, geriatric, and pediatric considerations. Instructor resources are available; contact your sales representative for details.

Helps users understand how to make a nursing diagnosis and plan care using the nursing process and evidence-based nursing research.
The practical, step-by-step format helps users make diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence.
Integrates both NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes in each care plan.
Features essential home care, client/family teaching, multicultural, pediatric, and geriatric considerations relevant to todays nursing students.
Helps users easily create customized plans of care using the Ackley, Ladwig Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website.

This edition has been extensively revised and updated to include the most up-to-date information on all 2005-2006 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses.
The new alphabetical thumb tabs offer easy access to specific nursing diagnosis care plans.
Features a helpful explanation of how to use the Guide to NursingDiagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections.
Features many enhancements to the accompanying Evolve website (see Ancillaries for details).
Includes more detailed information about NOC and its use in nursing care planning.
Guide to Nursing Diagnoses section features more emotional/spiritual elements and now includes coverage of Mad Cow, E. Coli, West Nile, Foodborne Illnesses, and Pesticide Contamination.
Guide to Planning Care section now offers updated and expanded multicultural, pediatric, and evidence-based interventions/rationales.
An appendix now includes Gordons Functional Health Patterns, as adapted by the authors.

Synopsis:

This bestselling reference helps users make nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. It helps nurses correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. This extensively revised and updated edition presents the most up-to-date information on all 2005-2006 NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses. You'll also appreciate the handbook's integration of both the NIC and NOC taxonomies; evidence-based nursing interventions; home care; client/family teaching; and multicultural, geriatric, and pediatric considerations. Instructor resources are available; contact your sales representative for details.

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!

Average customer rating based on 1 comment:

: tierney.greene, August 12, 2008 (view all comments by tierney.greene)
STRAIGHT AND TO THE POINT. NURSES HAVE A HARD TIME JUST FINDING SIMPLE ANSWERS TO DIFFICULY QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS. WE NEED TO GET TO ROOT OF THE PROBLEM ESPECIALLY US NURSING STUDENTS
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(3 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

Product Details

ISBN:: 9780323036641
Subtitle:: A Guide to Planning Care
Publisher:: C.V. Mosby
Author:: Ladwig, Gail B.
Author:: Ackley, Betty J.
Author:: Ladwig, Gail
Author:: Ackley, Betty
Subject:: Nursing - Assessment & Diagnosis
Edition Number:: 7
Series:: Nursing Diagnosis Handbook
Publication Date:: July 2005
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 1353
Dimensions:: 9.16x7.54x1.86 in. 4.52 lbs.

Other books you might like

$97.25 New Trade Paper add to wish list

Dosage Calculations with CDROM
Gloria D. Pickar
$84.95 New Hardcover add to wish list

Fundamentals of Nursing - Text Only (2ND 04 - Old Edition)
Helen Harkreader
$32.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications (Davis's Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests W/ Nursing Implications)
Anne M Van Leeuwen
$38.60 New Trade Paper add to wish list

Understanding the Nursing Process (07 Edition)
Lynda Juall Carpenito-moye
$25.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

Communication: The Key to the Therapeutic Relationship
Pamela Schuster
$30.75 New Trade Paper add to wish list

Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements
Not Available (na)

RSS 2.0
Log Off

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.