
Nursing Care Planning Guides
Prioritization, Delegation, and Clinical Reasoning
- 9th Edition - August 12, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Nancy Haugen, Sandra J. Galura
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 0 5 2 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 2 0 1 7 - 6

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Request a sales quote- 30+ nursing diagnosis care plans provide detailed interventions with rationales and documentation guidelines for the most common NANDA-I® nursing diagnoses
- 60+ comprehensive care plans cover the most common disorders in acute care, extended care, and home care settings
- Care plan format with a focus on prioritized nursing interventions, interventions that can be delegated, and documentation criteria, as well as differentiation between independent and collaborative nursing actions, provides a comprehensive and practical care planning tool
- Includes thorough patient teaching content, with each disorder care plan concluding with a “Deficient Knowledge” diagnosis with extensive discharge teaching information
- Body system organization makes content easy to locate
- Nursing and collaborative diagnoses are linked to actions and rationales
- A complete discussion of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging helps students understand the unique considerations of caring for this growing population group
- Animations, nursing skills videos, additional care plans, and a care plan template are provided on Evolve for additional help in care planning
1. Prioritization, Delegation, and Critical Thinking in Client Management
2. Nurse-Sensitive Indications
3. Selected Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, Rationales, and Documentation
4. Nursing Care of the Client Having Surgery
5. The Client with Alterations in Respiratory Function
6. The Client with Alternations in Cardiovascular Function
7. The Client with Alterations in Neurological Function
8. The Client with Alternations in Hematologic and Immune Function
9. The Client with Alterations in Metabolic Function
10. The Client with Alterations In the Gastrointestinal Tract
11. Nursing Care of the Client with Disturbances of the Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas
12. The Client with Alterations in the Kidney and Urinary Tract
13. The Client with Alterations in Musculoskeletal Function
14. The Client with Alterations in the Breast and Reproductive Systems
15. The Client Receiving Treatment for Neoplastic Disorders
16. Nursing Care of the Elderly Client
17. End-of-Life Nursing Care
- Edition: 9
- Published: August 12, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 928
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443105296
- eBook ISBN: 9780443120176
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