Equip students to 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 students 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, including 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 students need to write nursing care plans in just one book!
NEW! Problem, Etiology, Signs and Symptoms (PES) format.
NEW! Assessment, Analysis, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation (AAPIE) organization is in accordance with the NCSBN definition of the nursing process and the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.
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.
Educator and student resources on the companion Evolve website include PowerPoint® slides, test bank, case studies, review questions, and a care plan template where students can create a care plan to be converted into pdf for easy class submission.
NEW! Problem, Etiology, Signs and Symptoms (PES) format.
NEW! Assessment, Analysis, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation (AAPIE) organization is in accordance with the NCSBN definition of the nursing process and the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.
Section I: Nursing Process, Clinical Judgement Nursing Problems, and Evidence-Based Nursing Section II: Guide to Problem Identification Section III: Guide to Planning Care
Mary Beth Flynn Makic, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, FAAN, FNAP, FCNS, Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; Nurse Scientist, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, USA and Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, MS, RN, CNE, Professor of Nursing, Jackson College, USA
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