F.A. Davis Company

Provide your students with a clear, visual and systematic way of thinking about, identifying, and devising a plan of care. 

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

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

• Provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care.
• Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum.
• Works with or without nursing diagnoses.
• Saves time and improves clinical performance.
• Emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care.
• Teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly.
• Establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, assessment data, and treatments.
• Expanded focus on the importance of nurse-patient communications.
• Provides the tools needed to construct concept maps for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care.
• Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum.
• Knowledge building and step-by-step instruction
• Linkages explained by relationship statements.
• Enhanced discussion of documentation.

1. 'Twas the Night Before Clinical....
2. Gathering Clinical Data: The Framework for Patient Care Maps
3. Concept Care Mapping: Grouping Clinical Data in a Meaningful Manner
4. Nursing Interventions: So Many Problems, So Little Time
5. Nursing Implementation: Using Care
Maps in the Clinical Agency
6. Including Psycho-Social-Cultural Problems in the Concept Care Maps
7. Concept Care Maps as the Basis of Documentation and Phone Conversations with Physicians
8. After the Clinical Day is Over: Patient Evaluations and Self-Evaluations
Appendix A. Nursing Diagnosis Arranged by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Appendix B. Nursing Diagnosis Arranged by Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns
Appendix C. Nursing Diagnosis Arranged by Doenges and Moorhouse’s Diagnostic Divisions
Appendix D. North American Nursing Diagnosis Association’s Nursing Diagnosis Categories

• Redesigned concept maps make essential  relationships easy to understand.
• Expanded focus on the importance of  nurse-patient communications to ensure  accurate data collection.
• Six new forms offer more structured  guidance...Weekly Clinical Self-  Evaluation/Faculty Evaluation • Concept  Map Template for Pre-clinical and Postconference  • Initial Pain Assessment  Tool • Glasgow Coma Scale • Hospital  Database Patient Profile Form • and  Concept Map Care Plan Evaluation.
• Concept Map Generator available on  DavisPlus for instructors and students...
• Create, print, and email individualized concept maps.
• Design a concept map in minutes.