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Diagnosis
Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient &
Family Centered Care, Sixth Edition
Lynda J. Carpenito, RN, MSN, CRNP
978-1-4511-8787-8 • November 2013 • Softbound • 8.375” x 10.875” • 752 pp.
Learn how to create nursing care plans, effectively document care, and
succeed in the course with
Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient
and Family Centered Care, Sixth Edition
. Easy-to-understand and
packed with practical tools to prepare you for clinical practice, this
proven book focuses on the nursing plans that are most important,
ensuring that you learn what you need to know and that you can find
the information you need easily, without being distracted by irrelevant
information.
Features
• Maximize the book’s effectiveness as a learning tool with Unit III’s
step-by-step guidance on how to use the text, including a guide on
how to use the book’s icons.
• Help your student understand the various considerations to keep in
mind when creating nursing care plans through Safety and Quality
icons that to show risk severity and include suggestions for action.
Icons include:
– TRAP: Transitional Risk Assessment Plan
– STAR: Stop Think Act Review
– SBAR: Notes on communications with agents of change
– CAR: Clinical Alert Report that integrates information pertaining
to “Nurses Aid” and “Hand off”/Changing in shift information
• Transitional Plan: Home education information for the patient
• Increase students’ recall of important information with new, true-
to-practice briefer Interventions developed by expert clinicians.
• Broaden your students’ knowledge with new care plans for
Maternity, Pediatrics, and Mental Health.
• Help your students understand the importance of evidence-based
practice through new evidence-based rationales and guidelines.
• Give your students anytime, anywhere access to “day-to-day
encounters” and special risks information with the Laminated Quick
Reference Information Card.
• Enhance learning with clear presentations of collaborative problems
that alert students to the physiological complications they need to
monitor.
• Help your students master each chapter’s content with care plans
that include background, diagnostic cluster, Transitional Criteria,
and collaborative problems.
• Increase student understanding with a user-friendly format that
splits Collaborative Problems and Nursing Diagnosis in each chapter
and organizes care plans by Medical Conditions, Surgical Procedures,
and Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures.
• Prepare your students for effective nursing practice with NIC &
NOC cited prior to interventions and helpful author notes that
provide advice on how to implement a course of care.
• Ensure best practices with physician-prescribed interventions and
relevant documentation in each care plan.
Table of Contents
Unit 1:
Introduction to Client and
Family Centered Care
Unit 2:
Manual of Nursing Diagnoses
Section I:
Individual Nursing
Diagnoses
Section II:
Individual Collaborative
Problems
Unit 3:
Client and Family Centered
Care Plans
Section I:
Medical Conditions
Section II:
Surgical Procedures
Section III:
Diagnostic and
Therapeutic Procedures
Section IV:
Specialty Diagnostic
Clusters