Get nursing care plans right! Ackley’sNursing Diagnosis Handbook:An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 12th Editionhelps practicing nurses and nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. Extensively revised and updated with the new 2018-2020 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide your students in creating unique, individualized care plans.Step-by-step instructionsshows you how to use theGuide to Nursing DiagnosesandGuide to Planning Caresections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.UNIQUE!Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosisPromotesevidence-based interventions and rationalesby including recent or classic research that supports the use of each intervention.Presentsexamples of and suggested NIC interventions and NOC outcomesin each care plan.150 NCLEX exam-style review questionsare available on Evolve.Easy-to-follow sections I and IIguide you through the nursing process and selection of appropriate nursingAppendixesprovide you with valuable information in an easy-to-access location.Clear, concise interventionsare usually only a sentence or two long and use no more than two references.Safety contentemphasizes what must be considered to provide safe patient care.Classic evidence-based referencespromote evidence-based interventions and rationales.List of Nursing DiagnosisIndexon inside front cover of book for quick reference.Alphabetical thumb tabsallow quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.NEW!Includes comprehensive, up-to-date information on the new 2018-2020NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses,complete with 17 new diagnoses.NEW! and UPDATED! Provides the latest NIC/NO C, interventions, and rationalesfor every care planNEW! Section I: Gender identity discussionincludes information about the caregiver’s responsibility for adapting care accordingly.NEW! Interventions reorganized by priorityhelps you quickly identify the information you’re searching for.NEW! Section II: Bullying, Gender Dysphoria, Medical marijuana, Military families/personnel, Opioid use/abuse, Service animals, Technology addiction, and Veterans.NEW! Additional clarification of use of QSENthroughout book in Section INEW! Concept map creatoradded from Yoost textbook.NEW! Updated rationalesinclude evidence-based references 5 years or less.Book detailsPage Numbers Source ISBN:0323551122Publisher:Mosby; 12 edition (February 19, 2019)Publication Date:February 19, 2019Language:EnglishASIN:B07NYS8BXS