Nursing Care Plans and Documentation Nursing Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems

by Carpenito, Lynda Juall

• ISBN13: 9780781770644
• ISBN10: 0781770645
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-04
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

The Fifth Edition ofNursing Care Plans and Documentationprovides nurses with a comprehensive guide to creating care plans and effectively documenting care. This user-friendly resource presents the most likely diagnoses and collaborative problems with step-by-step guidance on nursing action, and rationales for interventions. The author also details research for individuals and families undergoing diagnostic procedures or medical and surgical interventions. The book includes over 70 care plans that translate theory into clinical practice.A new chapter covers moral distress in nursing and presents strategies to reduce its effect on nurses. An innovative new chapter on wellness discusses how to improve hospitalized patient outcomes. Other new topics covered include nursing diagnosis risk for compromised human dignity.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Care Planning	p. 1
The Bifocal Clinical Practice Model	p. 3
Documentation of Nursing Care	p. 9
11 Steps to Care Planning	p. 27
The Ill Adult: Issues and Responses	p. 32
Response to the Surgical Experience	p. 38
Reducing Moral Distress in Nurses	p. 50
Clinical Nursing Care Plans	p. 55
Medical Conditions	p. 61
Surgical Procedures	p. 463
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures	p. 667
References/Bibliography	p. 764
Appendix	p. 778
Clinical Situations Index	p. 787
Nursing Diagnoses Index	p. 789
Collaborative Problems Index	p. 796
General Index	p. 802
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