Nursing Care Plans - E-Book, 11th Edition
**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Diagnosis/Assessment**
Master 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!
**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Diagnosis/Assessment**
Master 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!
Key Features
- 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
Author Information
| ISBN Number | 9780443124556 |
|---|---|
| Main Author | By Meg Gulanick, PhD, RN, FAAN, Judith L. Myers, MSN, RN and Collin Bowman-Woodall, MSN, RN |
| Copyright Year | 2026 |
| Edition Number | 11 |
| Format | eBook |
| Trim | 216w x 276h (8.50" x 10.875") |
| Imprint | Elsevier |
| Page Count | 0 |
| Publication Date | 27 Nov 2024 |
| Stock Status | IN STOCK |


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