Nursing Concept Care Maps for Safe Patient Care

by Wittmann-Price, Ruth; Reap Thompson, Brenda; Sutton, Suzanne M.; Ritts Eskew, Sidney

• ISBN13: 9780803630529
• ISBN10: 0803630522
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-11
• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company

Summary

Master care planning with concept maps!A concept map is an easy-to-construct, visual tool that helps you organize your assessment data, identify patient problems, determine the appropriate nursing diagnoses and interventions, and assess the outcomes. Nursing Concept Care Maps for Providing Safe Patient Care presents 200 sample care maps covering the diseases and disorders you ll encounter most often in clinical practice. They'll also help you develop the critical-thinking skills you need to plan safe and effective nursing care.You'll immediately see the relationship between the patient s problem, the underlying condition and your clinical response. You'll also see the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, history and physical assessment data, treatments, medications and laboratory data.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Concept Maps for Infants
2. Concept Maps for Pediatric Patients
3. Concept Maps for Women’s Health
4. Concept Maps for Men
5. Concept Maps for Medical or Surgical Patients
6. Concept Maps for Patients with Psychiatric/Mental Health Disorders
7. Concept Maps for Geriatric Patients
8. Concept Maps for Community or Population Processes
9. Concept Maps for Systems to Promote Leadership Processes
10. Concept Maps for Patients in Critical Care

References and Resources
Appendices
A. Morning Report Worksheet
B.Clinical Assessment Tool
C. Patient Overview
D. Lab Values and Diagnostic Tests
E. Medications
F. Nurse’s Notes