Nursing Care Plans & Documentation Nursing Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems

The Fifth Edition of Nursing Care Plans and Documentation provides nurses with a comprehensive guide to creating care plans and effectively documenting care. This user-friendly resource presents the most likely diagnoses and collaborative problems with step-by-step guidance on nursing action, and ra...

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Main Author: Carpenito-Moyet, Lynda Juall (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2008
Edition:EDITION 5
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Summary:The Fifth Edition of Nursing Care Plans and Documentation provides nurses with a comprehensive guide to creating care plans and effectively documenting care. This user-friendly resource presents the most likely diagnoses and collaborative problems with step-by-step guidance on nursing action, and rationales for interventions. The author also details research for individuals and families undergoing diagnostic procedures or medical and surgical interventions. The book includes over 70 care plans that translate theory into clinical practice. A new chapter covers moral distress in nursing and presents strategies to reduce its effect on nurses. An innovative new chapter on wellness discusses how to improve hospitalized patient outcomes. Other new topics covered include nursing diagnosis risk for compromised human dignity.
Physical Description:xviii, 814 pages illustrations 28 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN:9780781770644
0781770645