Nursing care plans : guidelines for individualizing client care across the life span / Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nursing process: planning care using critical thinking -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Respiratory disorders -- Neurological/sensory disorders -- Gastrointestinal disorders -- Metabolic and endocrine disorders -- Diseases of the blood/blood-forming organs -- Renal and urinary tract disorders -- Women's health -- Men's health -- Orthopedic disorders -- Integumentary disorders -- Systemic infections and immunological disorders -- General.

Here<U+0019>s the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You<U+0019>ll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features: client assessment database for each medical condition; complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority; diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean; actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales; NANDA, NIC, and NOC<U+0019>s most recent guidelines and terminology; evidence-based citations; and index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders. -- From product description.