This updated edition includes more than 300 completed sample care plans that help nurses write accurate and efficient plans for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis. Each care plan includes criteria for identifying the right nursing diagnosis, assessment guidelines, outcome statements, interventions with rationales, and documentation guidelines. Contents include the nursing process; nursing diagnoses and critical pathways; adult, adolescent, child, maternal-neonatal, geriatric, psychiatric, and community-based health; appendices, including Gordon's functional health patterns, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Orem's universal self-care demands, NANDA taxonomy I revised, and a listing of medical diagnoses with applicable nursing diagnosis; selected references; and an index




