F.A. Davis Company

A fun, interactive way to begin mastering the nursing process! Chapters on each step of the nursing process present a step-by-step, problem-solving approach that helps students understand the meaning and language of nursing. Your students will actively seek solutions rather than passively assimilate knowledge.

• Four patient vignettes unfold throughout the text to illustrate each step of the nursing process and to enable your students to learn through doing.
• Practice activities, work pages, and case studies provide opportunities to examine and scrutinize patient situations, consider alternatives, and evaluate outcomes.
• Final chapters include Documentation, Evaluation Checklist, Interactive Care Plan Worksheets, and a fifth vignette to ensure your students understand and can apply what they have just learned.

Davis’s Care Planning & Nursing Diagnosis Resource Center

Your resource for nursing diagnosis, care planning and concept maps, concept map generator, care plan template, interactive and printable assessment tool, and more!Davis’s Care Planning & Nursing Diagnosis Resource Center

Your resource for nursing diagnosis, care planning and concept maps, concept map generator, care plan template, interactive and printable assessment tool, and more!

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• Features vignettes throughout each chapter that clearly show how to plan, document, and deliver care across the lifespan.
• Provides practice activities, case studies, and care plan work sheets to enable students to demonstrate their mastery of each step of the nursing process.
• Introduces concept mapping.
• Covers a variety of care settings across the lifespan.
• Includes valuable appendices.
• Emphasizes the skills of critical thinking and effective problem solving.
• Student CD-ROM

1. The Nursing Process: Delivering Quality Care
2. The Assessment Step: Developing the Client Database
3. The Diagnosis or Need Identification Step: Analyzing the Data
4. The Planning Step: Creating the Plan of Care
5. The Implementation Step: Putting the Plan of Care into Action
6. The Evaluation Step: Determining Whether Desired Outcomes Have Been Met
7. Documenting the Nursing Process
8. Interactive Care Planning: From Assessment to Client Response

Appendices

1. Assessment Tool
2. Code for Nurses
3. Lunney’s Ordinal Scale for Degrees of Accuracy
4. A Guide to Self-Monitoring of Accuracy
5. Using the Integrated Model
6. Sample Clinical (Critical) Pathways
7. Glossary
8. Nursing Outcomes Classifications
9. A Health Outcome Classification for Nursing Diagnosis: NANDA Nursing Diagnoses Organized According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Nursing Framework
10. NANDA Taxonomy II: Definitions of Axes
11. NANDA Nursing Diagnoses with Definitions, Related/Risk Factors, and Defining Characteristics.

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