Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook E-Book

Create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence! Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13th Edition uses an easy, three-step system to guide you through client assessment, nursing diagnosis, and care planning. Step by step instructions show how to implement care and evaluate outcomes, and can help you build skills in diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking. To make care planning easier, this handbook permits you to look up nursing diagnoses and care plans for more than 1450 client symptoms, in addition to interventions from NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification) and outcomes from NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification). Edited by noted nursing educators Mary Beth Flynn Makic and Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, this reference provides everything you wish to have to write nursing care plans in just one book!

• Easy-to-follow Sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing diagnoses.
• Step-by-step instructions show how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
• UNIQUE! Care plans are provided for each NANDA-International^© (NANDA-I^©) -approved nursing diagnosis.
• Evolve website includes a care plan template, case studies, review questions, andmore!
• Evidence-based interventions and rationales include research studies and references supporting the usage of each intervention.
• Examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes are presented in each care plan.
• Quality and safety content emphasizes what will have to be thought to be to provide protected patient care, and includes QSEN content in Section I.
• Pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, and home care interventions are included as appropriate for plans of care.
• Index of NANDA-I^© Diagnoseson the inside back cover of the book provides quick reference to page numbers.
• Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

• NEW! Up to date content is based on the 2021-2023 NANDA-I^©-approved nursing diagnoses and reflects new diagnoses, revised diagnoses, and retired diagnoses.
• NEW! Up to date nursing diagnoses include class and domain information as consistent with the current NANDA-I.