Nursing Care Plans

Get everything you need to create and customize effective nursing care plans, now with evidence-based ICNP^® diagnoses! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Gulanick & Myers’ (Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 10th Edition) features more than 200 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features highlighted QSEN competencies and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are ICNP^® diagnoses, care plans on LGBTQ health issues and on electrolytes and acid-base balance, and a new Online Care Planner that makes it easier than ever to customize care plans. Written by noted educators Meg Gulanick and Judith L. Myers, this #1 care planning book will help you learn to think like a nurse!

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• 61 patient problem care plans) include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for you to create your own individualized care plans.
• (164 disorder care plans) cover virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system.
• (Patient problem care plan format) includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions.
• (Disorder care plan format) covers synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a definition, common related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant nursing diagnosis.
• (Prioritized care planning guidance) internally organizes care plans from "actual" to "risk" diagnoses, from general to specific interventions, and from independent to collaborative/interprofessional interventions, to help you select the most important, priority interventions for your particular patients.

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• NEW! Updated care plans) are now based on the evidence-based, complete, and internationally accepted International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP^®) nursing diagnoses.
• (NEW! 19 all-new care plans) are featured in this edition.
• (NEW! Updated content) (throughout) reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international guidelines.
• (NEW! Online Care Planner on the Evolve website) allows you to easily generate customized care plans based on the book’s content.
• (NEW! Improved focus on core content) includes several care plans that have been moved from the book’s Evolve website.