Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual

by Sparks, Sheila M.; Taylor, Cynthia M.

• ISBN13: 9780874348972
• ISBN10: 0874348978
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Springhouse Pub Co

Summary

The Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Fourth Edition, helps you prepare your care plans with remarkable efficiency and clinical accuracy. Inside you'll find a versatile life-cycle format, with sections on adult, child, maternal-neonatal, adolescent, and geriatric health; and 320 complete care plans, including care plans for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis. For each nursing diagnosis, you'll find: the NANDA-approved diagnostic label and etiology, assessment criteria and defining characteristics, associated medical diagnosis, expected outcomes, interventions with easy-to-spot rationales in italic type, evaluations for expected outcomes, and documentation guidelines. New care plans for community-based nursing practice - home health, hospice care, school nursing, managed care, community outreach, health promotion, patient teaching with the Internet, and much more; new insights on nursing diagnoses and critical pathways; and fully-revised, expanded appendix relating nursing diagnoses to medical diagnoses.

Table of Contents

Contributors	iv	(2)
Preface	vi
The Nursing Process	1	(21)
Nursing Diagnoses and Critical Pathways	22	(2)
Part One Adult Health	24	(356)
Introduction	24	(2)
Nursing Diagnoses (in alphabetical order)	26	(354)
Part Two Adolescent Health	380	(22)
Introduction	380	(2)
Nursing Diagnoses (in alphabetical order)	382	(20)
Part Three Child Health	402	(52)
Introduction	402	(2)
Nursing Diagnoses (in alphabetical order)	404	(50)
Part Four Maternal-Neonatal Health	454	(76)
Introduction	454	(2)
Nursing Diagnoses (in alphabetical order)	456	(74)
Part Five Geriatric Health	530	(50)
Introduction	530	(2)
Nursing Diagnoses (in alphabetical order)	532	(48)
Part Six Community-based Health	589	(38)
Introduction	580	(2)
Nursing Diagnoses (in alphabetical order)	582	(36)
Appendices and Index	618
Nursing Diagnosis Cross References
Medical diagnoses	618	(56)
Gordon's functional health patterns	674	(3)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs	677	(2)
Orem's universal self-care demands	679	(2)
NANDA taxonomy I revised	681	(3)
Selected references	684	(2)
Index	686