Nurse's Pocket Guide Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales

Rely on this essential pocket guide when planning care-thousands of other students already have! Now in its ninth edition, Nurse's Pocket Guide is the reference of choice when planning patient care in clinical and beyond. Containing the new and revised nursing diagnoses through the latest NANDA conference, this handy pocket-sized guide will help you identify interventions most commonly associated with nursing diagnoses. It's a great resource for hospital and community-based settings! Why do you need this book? * Alphabetical listing of new and revised nursing diagnoses through the latest NANDA conference keeps you up-to-date * Related Factors, Defining Characteristics, Desired Outcomes/Evaluation Criteria, Actions/Interventions, and Documentation Focus are listed for each nursing diagnosis to help you plan care for your patients * Updated section of more than 400 Disorders/Health Problems with associated nursing diagnoses helps validate the assessment and diagnosis steps of the nursing process * Nursing Actions/Interventions with selected rationales are listed according to nursing priorities * Documentation Focus section-organized according to nursing priorities-is an excellent tool to remind you how important and necessary recording the steps of the nursing process is to patient care * Desired outcomes and evaluation criteria are clearly identified to assist the nurse in formulating individual patient outcomes and to support the evaluation process.Doenges, Marilynn E. is the author of 'Nurse's Pocket Guide Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales', published 2004 under ISBN 9780803611795 and ISBN 080361179X.