Ackley and Ladwig's Nursing Diagnosis Handbook - An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence! Ackley and Ladwig''s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13thEdition uses an easy, three-step system to guide you through client assessment, nursing diagnosis, and care planning. Step-by-step 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 Martinez-Kratz, this reference provides everything you need to write nursing care plans in just one book!

• Easy-to-follow Sections I and II guide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursing diagnoses.
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