Ackley and Ladwigs Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An EvidenceBased Guide to Planning Care

**Selected for Doodys Core Titles 2024 with Essential Purchase designation in Diagnosis/Assessment**Create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence! Ackley and Ladwigs Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13th Edition uses an easy, threestep system to guide you through client assessment, nursing diagnosis, and care planning. Stepbystep 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 MartinezKratz, this reference provides everything you need to write nursing care plans in just one book! Easytofollow Sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing diagnoses Stepbystep 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 NANDAInternational (NANDAI) approved nursing diagnosis Evolve website includes a care plan template, case studies, review questions, andmore Evidencebased 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 NANDAI 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! Updated content is based on the 20212023 NANDAIapproved 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 NANDAI