Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span

By Alice C MurrMarilynn E. DoengesMary Frances Moorhouse, et al.

Book Overview

167 care plans focuses on individualized care for clients across the lifespan. Provides guidelines that cover total patient needs--physical, cultural, sexual, nutritional, and psychosocial. Offers a client assessment database for each medical condition for quick review and retrieval of information. Presents diagnoses by priority. Applies the body system approach to care planning. Contains comprehensive rationales for every intervention. Covers complementary therapies. Shows what to expect in the hospital and community-based settings. Explains how to document for government regulations and third-party payers. Identifies discharge plan considerations. Presents diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean. Begins each chapter with a glossary. Care plans addressing acutely ill patients. Includes an Index of Nursing Diagnoses with page numbers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803630417
• ISBN13: 9780803630413
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
• Length: 1008 Pages
• Weight: 4.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Very much needed book for my daughter in nursing school.

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This book is proving helpful to me as a refresher in writing nursing care plans

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Being a nursing student in my first semester of clinicals this book really helped me to come up with the proper diagnosis and care plans for my patients. It helped to understand how nursing care plans actually worked for the patients when properly used.

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This book is the best have seen so far when it comes to writing a care plan. It is well detailed and was like a solution to all my problems

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This book is AWESOME!!!! This book has everything you need. If I didnt have this book, I would have never passed my careplans. I got all A's on my careplans. Great book. Better then what my school recommended to use as references.

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