Nursing Care Plans
Guidelines for Individualizing Patient Care
Description:... -- Comprehensive guidelines for nursing care plans encompass total patient needs, including the physical aspect as well as cultural, sexual, nutritional, and psychosocial needs
-- Changes through the 13th NANDA conference
-- NIC/NOC labels show linkages to nursing diagnoses
-- Critical thinking emphasized throughout, promoting thoughtful decision making and better individualization of care
-- Includes a variety of care maps to illustrate the use of clinical pathways, differentiate them from care plans, and familiarize students with what they will encounter in the hospital
-- Variations for the community and home care settings have been added to accurately reflect today's healthcare environment
-- Comprehensive guidelines for nursing care plans encompass total patient needs, including the physical aspect as well as cultural, sexual, nutritional, and psychosocial needs
-- All nursing interventions include corresponding scientific rationales, and DRGs are identified with projected length of stay
-- New care plan on post-transplant nursing care
-- Includes documentation requirements of government regulations and third-party payers and the latest JCAHO and ANA standards
-- Care plans list the potential complications (related concerns) associated with various conditions
-- The free CD-ROM offers:
-- 191 diseases/conditions with hundreds of care plans: 105 medical-surgical; 35 psychiatric; and 51 maternal/newborn
-- the capability to print preprinted care plans or customize by printing plans before seeing a patient and having the information available at user's fingertips
-- editing options that enable the user to cut, copy, and paste
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