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Mosby
16 May 2022
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 help you build skills in diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking. To make care planning easier, this handbook allows you to look up nursing diagnoses and care plans for more than 1450 client symptoms, as well as 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 need 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, and more!

Evidence-based interventions and rationales include research studies and references supporting the use of each intervention.

Examples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomes are presented in each care plan.

Quality and safety content emphasizes what must be considered to provide safe 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© Diagnoses on 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! Updated content is based on the 2021-2023 NANDA-I©-approved nursing diagnoses and reflects new diagnoses, revised diagnoses, and retired diagnoses.

NEW! Updated nursing diagnoses include class and domain information as consistent with the current NANDA-I.

Edited by:   , , , ,
Imprint:   Mosby
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   13th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm, 
Weight:   1.900kg
ISBN:   9780323776837
ISBN 10:   0323776833
Pages:   1088
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Replaced By:   9780443123559
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mary Beth Flynn Makic has more than 30 years of critical care experience in research, evidence-based practice, and clinical education. She is a Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and Program Director for the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist graduate program. She is also a Research Scientist at a Level I trauma center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Makic achieved her BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a focus on trauma patient populations and the advanced practice role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her PhD was conferred in 2007 by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She is active locally and nationally in several professional organizations. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She also serves on the editorial board of several critical care journals, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a successor co-author of two Elsevier books on nursing diagnosis. Dr. Makic is well known for her passion for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice through evidence-based practice.

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