Create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence! Ackley & Ladwig’s Nursing Problems & Care Planning Handbook, 14th Edition, uses an easy system that guides you through identifying patient problems to implement evidence-based interventions in developing care plans. This thoroughly revised edition offers an evidence-based approach to nursing care planning organized by systems concepts. Care plans are aligned with the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model and include NIC and NOC standardized terminologies. Evidence-based activities and indicators for multiple populations includes adult, pediatric, older adult, behavioral health, and maternal/child health. Edited by noted nursing educators Mary Beth Flynn Makic and Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz, this reference provides everything you need to write nursing care plans in just one book!
- Client problems are logically organized by systems concepts.
- Care plans are aligned to Clinical Judgment Measurement Model principles and competencies and include NIC and NOC standardized terminology, intervention and outcome statements.
- Clinical judgment competencies, interventions and rationales cover adult, older adult, behavioral health, pediatrics, maternal/child health, multicultural, home care, client/family teaching, and discharge planning.
- Student resources on the companion Evolve website are aligned to clinical judgment competencies and include case studies, review questions, and a care plan template where you can create a care plan to be converted into pdf for easy class submission.
- NEW! Problem, Etiology, Signs and Symptoms (PES) format.
- NEW! Assessment, Analysis, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation (AAPIE) organization is in accordance with the NCSBN definition of the nursing process and the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.
