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Nursing Diagnosis

Handbook: An Evidence-
Based Guide to Planning
Care
By
Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS
RN
Mosby

Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based


Guide to Planning Care, 11th Edition helps practicing nurses and
nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care
plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows
you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information
about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established
medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan.
Extensively revised and updated with the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I
approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC
taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult,
pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, and client/family
teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide you in
creating unique, individualized care plans.

Comprehensive, up-to-date information on all the 2015-2017


NANDA-I nursing diagnoses so you stay in the know.
UNIQUE! Provides care plans for every NANDA-I
approved nursing diagnosis plus two unique care plans for
Hearing Loss and Vision Loss.
Includes pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, client/family
teaching and discharge planning, home care, and safety
interventions as necessary for plans of care.
Presents examples of and suggested NIC interventions and
NOC outcomes in each care plan.
UNIQUE! Care Plan Constructor on the companion Evolve
website offers hands-on practice creating customized plans
of care.
150 NCLEX exam-style review questions are available on
Evolve.
Promotes evidence-based interventions and rationales by
including recent or classic research that supports the use of each
intervention.
Classic evidence-based references promote evidence-based
interventions and rationales.
Clear, concise interventions are usually only a sentence or two
long and use no more than two references.
Safety content emphasizes what must be considered to provide
safe patient care.
Step-by-step instructions show you how to use the Guide to
Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to
create a unique, individualized plan of care.
List of Nursing Diagnosis Index in back inside cover of book
for quick reference.
Three-column index is easy to use.
Easy-to-follow sections I and II guide you through the nursing
process and selecting appropriate nursing diagnoses.
Alphabetical thumb tabs allow quick access to specific
symptoms and nursing diagnoses.

NEW! Includes the new 2015-2017 NANDA-I approved


nursing diagnoses, compete with 26 new diagnoses.
NEW and UPDATED! Provides the latest NIC/NOC,
interventions, and rationales for every care plan.
EXPANDED! Additional information on concept based
nursing and major nursing theories provides you with the
knowledge you need for clinical success.
EXPANDED! New content on QSEN, safety, and risk for
infection keeps you up to date.
NEW! In-depth coverage of wellness and primary
prevention stresses the importance of health and wellness.
NEW! Appendixes in the text provide you with valuable
information in an easy-to-access location.
NEW! Revised references in APA style.

Mosby

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