Ackley & Ladwig’s Guide to Nursing Problems & Care Planning
- 8th Edition - January 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Editors: Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, Mary Beth Flynn Makic
- Language: English
Use this pocket-sized guide to make nursing diagnoses and formulate care plans! Ackley and Ladwig’s Guide to Nursing Problems & Care Planning, 8th Edition, provides quick… Read more
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Description
Description
Use this pocket-sized guide to make nursing diagnoses and formulate care plans! Ackley and Ladwig’s Guide to Nursing Problems & Care Planning, 8th Edition, provides quick access to more than 1,300 specific client symptoms and a logical, step-by-step guide to care planning. A condensed version of Ackley and Ladwig’s Guide to Nursing Problems & Care Planning: An Evidence-Based Approach, 14th Edition, this book features a Problem, Etiology, and Signs and Symptoms (PES) format. Care plans are aligned with the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. Edited by nursing educators Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz and Mary Beth Flynn Makic, this reference is ideal for use in class, clinicals, or at the bedside!
Key features
Key features
- Section I: Guide to Problem Identification provides an alphabetical listing of common patient problems that include medical diagnoses, psychological diagnoses, and clinical conditions that also align to systems concepts
- Section II: Guide to Planning Care includes a collection of nursing problems aligned to clinical judgment competencies for developing person-centered care
- NEW! Problem, Etiology, Signs and Symptoms (PES) format makes this edition easier to use.
- Problem, risk, and health promotion care plans are arranged alphabetically by systems concepts that include physiological, biobehavioral, self-management, and safety concerns
- Three different types of nursing problems are included: problem-focused, risk-focused, and health-promotion-focused
- Up-to-date, evidence-based rationales are provided for each nursing problem to guide practice
- Index of Care Plans by Systems Concepts Category is included on the inside front and back covers of the print edition
- Alphabetical thumb tabs provide quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses
- Pocket-size portability makes this print book easy to carry and use in class, clinicals, or at the bedside
Readership
Readership
Undergraduate nursing students in BSN and ADN programs
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section I: Guide to Problem Identification
Alphabetical Listing of Common Patient Problems
Section II: Guide to Planning Care
Nursing Problems Aligned to Clinical Judgment Competencies
Alphabetical Listing of Common Patient Problems
Section II: Guide to Planning Care
Nursing Problems Aligned to Clinical Judgment Competencies
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 8
- Latest edition
- Published: January 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Nursing, Jackson College, USAMM
Mary Beth Flynn Makic
Mary Beth Flynn Makic has more than 30 years of critical care experience in research, evidence-based practice, and clinical education. She is a Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing and Program Director for the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist graduate
program. She is also a Research Scientist at a Level I trauma center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Makic
achieved her BSN from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a focus on trauma patient populations and the advanced practice role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her PhD was conferred in 2007 by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. She is active locally and nationally in several professional organizations. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. She also serves on the editorial board of several critical care journals, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a successor co-author of two Elsevier books on nursing diagnosis. Dr. Makic is well known for her passion for improving patient outcomes and nursing practice through evidence-based practice.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; Nurse Scientist, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA