F.A. Davis Company

Master care planning with concept maps!

A concept map is an easy-to-construct, visual tool that helps you organize your assessment data, identify patient problems, determine the appropriate nursing diagnoses and interventions, and assess the outcomes.

Nursing Concept Care Maps for Providing Safe Patient Care presents 200 sample care maps covering the diseases and disorders you’ll encounter most often in clinical practice. They'll also help you develop the critical-thinking skills you need to plan safe and effective nursing care.

You'll immediately see the relationship between the patient’s problem, the underlying condition and your clinical response. You'll also see the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, history and physical assessment data, treatments, medications and laboratory data.

• Presents an overview of the theory and use of concept mapping in planning patient care.
• Features 200 sample concept care maps for the most common problems seen in clinical practice in • infants • children • women • men • older adults • as well as medical/surgical • critical care • psychiatric/mental health patients.
  • Uses a two-page spread for each condition.
  • Left page—Physiology • Handoff Communication (Situation, Background, Assessment) • Implement (Recommendation) & Evaluate Your Plan of Care (NOC).
  • Right page—Sample concept map with appropriate nursing diagnoses (NANDA) in P-E-S (problem, etiology, and symptom) format • interventions (NIC) • Medications • Laboratory & Diagnostic Procedures.
• Offers additional concept maps for leadership and community and population processes.
• Uses the SBAR (situation, background, assessment, recommendation) format for the assessment process.
• Includes tables with the interventions and outcomes for each disorder or problem along with rationales.
• Emphasizes patient safety, incorporating standards from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
• Provides clinical data collection sheets and a concept care map generator online at DavisPlus to facilitate the creation of individualized care maps to print or e-mail.

1. Concept Maps for Infants
2. Concept Maps for Pediatric Patients
3. Concept Maps for Women’s Health
4. Concept Maps for Men
5. Concept Maps for Medical or Surgical Patients
6. Concept Maps for Patients with Psychiatric/Mental Health Disorders
7. Concept Maps for Geriatric Patients
8. Concept Maps for Community or Population Processes
9. Concept Maps for Systems to Promote Leadership Processes
10. Concept Maps for Patients in Critical Care

1. Morning Report Worksheet
2. Clinical Assessment Tool
3. Patient Overview
4. Lab Values and Diagnostic Tests
5. Medications
6. Nurse’s Notes