
Nursing Care Plans
Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes
- 11th Edition - November 27, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Meg Gulanick, Judith L. Myers
- Editor: Collin Bowman-Woodall
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 0 5 2 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 2 4 5 5 - 6
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Request a sales quoteMaster the skills you need to create customized nursing care plans! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 11th Edition features 232 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features ICNP diagnoses, highlighted QSEN competencies, and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are a full-color format, seven new care plans, and a new online care plan template that makes it easier to create care plans. The #1 care planning book is better than ever and will help you learn to think like a nurse!
- NEW! Seven additional care plans cover:
- Impaired Skin Integrity
- Infection
- Underweight
- Overflow Incontinence of Urine
- Eating Disorders
- Brain Tumor
- Pancreatic Cancer
- NEW! Fully updated coverage includes the latest therapeutic interventions and rationales
- NEW! Full-color format makes this text more user-friendly and accessible
- UPDATED! Using Nursing Care Plans to Individualize and Improve Care chapter features more illustrations to help you understand the components of a care plan, as well as how to prioritize those which are most appropriate for your patients
- UPDATED! Content reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international clinical practice guidelines
- Care plans for 77 “clinical problems” (formerly “nursing diagnoses”) use a conceptual model organization and include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for creating your own individualized care plans
- Care plans for 155 disorders encompass virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system
- Prioritized care planning guidance internally organizes care plans from "actual" to "risk for" clinical problems, from general to specific interventions, and from independent to collaborative/interprofessional interventions to help you prioritize the most important, therapeutic interventions
- Care plan format for clinical problems includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions
- Care plan format by disorder includes synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a definition, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant clinical problem
- NEW! Care plan template on the Evolve companion website gives you a starting point for creating your own plans of care
Undergraduate nursing students in BSN and ADN programs
- Nursing Care Plans : Diagnoses, Interventions, & Outcomes
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Previous Contributors
- Reviewers
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- 1. Using nursing care plans to individualize and improve care
- Introduction
- What is a nursing care plan?
- How to use nursing care plans: diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes
- Individualizing a care plan
- Prioritizing nursing diagnoses
- Clinical judgment challenge
- A focus on optimizing care
- Various clinical problems
- Quality and safety in nursing
- Tools for quality improvement in nursing
- Development of patient education materials
- References
- 2. ICNP nursing diagnosis care plans
- Physiologic nursing diagnoses
- Safety
- Comfort
- Cognition
- Oxygenation
- Perfusion
- Acid-base balance
- Fluid and electrolyte balance
- Infection
- Digestion
- Metabolism
- Elimination
- Mobility
- Thermoregulation
- Psychosocial nursing diagnoses
- 3. Patient readiness for health promotion
- 4. Care plans for clinical problems
- Surgical experience: Preoperative and postoperative care
- Preoperative phase
- Postoperative phase
- Blood component therapy
- Central venous access devices
- Parenteral nutrition
- Enteral nutrition
- Hearing loss
- Visual impairment
- Tracheostomy
- Older adult frailty
- Substance use disorders
- Grief, death, and dying: End-of-life issues
- Common mood disorders: Depression and bipolar disorder
- Eating disorders
- 5. Cardiac and vascular care plans
- Acute coronary syndromes/myocardial infarction
- Angina pectoris, stable
- Aortic aneurysm
- Atrial fibrillation
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Coronary bypass/valve surgery: Postoperative care
- Traditional coronary artery bypass surgery
- Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass
- Valve replacement surgery
- Dysrhythmias
- Heart failure, chronic
- Hypertension
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Pacemaker/cardioverter-defibrillator
- Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty
- Percutaneous coronary intervention
- Peripheral arterial revascularization
- Peripheral arterial disease, chronic
- Pulmonary edema, acute
- Shock, anaphylactic
- Shock, cardiogenic
- Shock, hypovolemic
- Shock, septic/sepsis
- Thrombosis, deep vein
- Venous insufficiency, chronic
- 6. Pulmonary care plans
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Asthma
- Chest trauma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Coronavirus infection
- Mechanical ventilation
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax with chest tube
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Respiratory failure, acute
- Thoracotomy
- 7. Neurologic care plans
- Alzheimer’s disease/dementia
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Craniotomy
- Headache: Migraine, cluster, tension
- Intracranial infection
- Intervertebral disk disease
- Lyme disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Seizure activity
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Transient ischemic attack/carotid endarterectomy
- Traumatic brain injury
- West Nile virus
- 8. Gastrointestinal and digestive care plans
- Bariatric surgery
- Bowel diversion surgery: Colostomy, ileostomy
- Cholecystectomy
- Cirrhosis
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Hepatitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Pancreatitis, acute
- Peptic ulcer disease
- 9. Musculoskeletal care plans
- Amputation, lower extremity
- Arthroscopy
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures: Extremity and pelvic
- Joint arthroplasty/replacement: Total hip, knee, shoulder
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteoporosis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Traction
- 10. Cancer care plans
- Brain cancer
- Breast cancer/surgical management with breast reconstruction option
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Cancer-related fatigue
- Cancer radiation therapy
- Cervical cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Head and neck cancer: Surgical approaches
- Hematopoietic stem cell collection
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Leukemia, adult
- Lung cancer
- Lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Ovarian cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Skin cancer
- Testicular cancer
- 11. Hematologic and immunologic care plans
- Anemia
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Hemophilia
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease
- Neutropenia
- Organ transplantation, solid
- Heart transplantation
- Lung transplantation
- Liver transplantation
- Kidney transplantation
- Problems common to solid organ transplant recipients: Risk for infection, difficulty coping, and lack of knowledge
- Sickle cell disease
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- 12. Renal and urinary tract care plans
- Acute kidney injury
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- Glomerulonephritis
- Hemodialysis
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Renal calculi
- Urinary diversion
- Urinary tract infection
- 13. Men’s and women’s health care plans
- General health care plans
- LGBTQ+ health issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Victim of sexual assault
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Men’s health care plans
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Erectile dysfunction
- Women’s health care plans
- Hysterectomy
- Menopause
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Pelvic floor dysfunction
- 14. Endocrine and metabolic care plans
- Diabetes mellitus
- Adrenal insufficiency (addison’s disease)
- Cushing’s disease
- Diabetes insipidus
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS)
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone
- Thyroidectomy
- 15. Integumentary care plans
- Burns
- Contact dermatitis
- Pressure injuries
- Psoriasis
- Reconstructive plastic surgery for wound closure
- Shingles
- Index
- Quick care plan locator
- Edition: 11
- Published: November 27, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 1008
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443105272
- eBook ISBN: 9780443124556
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Collin Bowman-Woodall
Assistant Professor Collin Bowman-Woodall works in the Department of Nursing at Samuel Merritt University, San Mateo, California, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Nurse, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USAMG
Meg Gulanick
Professor Emeritus Meg Gulanick works at the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IllinoisJM
Judith L. Myers
Judith L. Myers formerly Assistant Professor of Nursing at Grand View University, Des Moines, IA, USA
Affiliations and expertise
Formerly, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa