Use this convenient resource to formulate nursing diagnoses and create individualized care plans! Updated with the most recent NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, "Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 9th Edition" shows you how to build customized care plans using a three-step process: assess, diagnose, and plan care. It includes suggested nursing diagnoses for over 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Authors Elizabeth Ackley and Gail Ladwig use Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) information to guide you in creating care plans that include desired outcomes, interventions, patient teaching, and evidence-based rationales.

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 1,300 client symptoms, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, and clinical states. Section III: Guide to Planning Care The definition, defining characteristics, risk factors, related factors, suggested NOC outcomes, client outcomes, suggested NIC interventions, interventions with rationales, geriatric interventions (when appropriate), home care interventions, culturally competent nursing interventions where appropriate, client/family teaching, and websites (when available) for client education for each alphabetized nursing diagnosis. Also includes a pain assessment guide and equianalgesic chart. Appendixes Nursing Diagnoses Arranged by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Nursing Diagnoses Arranged by Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Wellness-Oriented Diagnostic Categories A Guide to Using Equianalgesic Charts