Ackley & Ladwig's Nursing Problems & Care Planning Handbook
An Evidence-Based Approach
- 14th Edition - February 25, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz
- Language: English
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Create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence! Ackley & Ladwig’s Nursing Problems & Care Planning Handbook, 14th Edition, uses an easy system that guides you through identifying patient problems to implement evidence-based interventions in developing care plans. This thoroughly revised edition offers an evidence-based approach to nursing care planning organized by systems concepts. Care plans are aligned with the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model and include NIC and NOC standardized terminologies. Evidence-based activities and indicators for multiple populations includes adult, pediatric, older adult, behavioral health, and maternal/child health. Edited by noted nursing educators Mary Beth Flynn Makic and Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, this reference provides everything you need to write nursing care plans in just one book!
- Client problems are logically organized by systems concepts.
- Care plans are aligned to Clinical Judgment Measurement Model principles and competencies and include NIC and NOC standardized terminology, intervention and outcome statements.
- Clinical judgment competencies, interventions and rationales cover adult, older adult, behavioral health, pediatrics, maternal/child health, multicultural, home care, client/family teaching, and discharge planning.
- Student resources on the companion Evolve website are aligned to clinical judgment competencies and include case studies, review questions, and a care plan template where you can create a care plan to be converted into pdf for easy class submission.
Undergraduate nursing students in BSN and ADN programs
Section I: Nursing Process, Clinical Judgement Nursing Problems, and Evidence-Based Nursing
Section II: Guide to Problem Identification
Section III: Guide to Planning Care
Section II: Guide to Problem Identification
Section III: Guide to Planning Care
- Edition: 14
- Latest edition
- Published: February 25, 2026
- Language: English
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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, USAMM
Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Nursing, Jackson College, USA