NURSING CARE PLANS & DOCUMENTATION

Author: Lynda Carpenito-Moyet, R.N., M.S.N., C.R.N.P.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN 10: 0781770645
ISBN 13: 9780781770644
Edition: 5th

Description:

The Fifth Edition of Nursing Care Plans and Documentation provides 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. New chapters cover moral distress in nursing, improving hospitalized patient outcomes, and nursing diagnosis risk for compromised human dignity. The book includes over 70 care plans that translate theory into clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

UNIT I Introduction to Care Planning

UNIT II Clinical Nursing Care Plans

REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX A LIST OF NIC INTERVENTIONS AND NOC OUTCOMES