Plan effective patient care using standardized interprofessional
clinical problems and a concept-based approach! Conceptual Nursing
Care Planning shows you how to identify clinical problems, determine
expected outcomes, and choose interventions - all grounded in a logical,
concept-based framework. The focus on concepts gives you the big
picture, helping you recognize similarities in nursing care based on
physiologic concepts, as well as differences based on the needs of
individuals. Written by noted nursing educators Mariann Harding and
Debra Hagler, this new book demonstrates how the use of a concept-based
approach and standardized clinical problems language makes it easier to
plan effective care and to communicate with other members of the
interprofessional team.
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- 73 conceptual nursing care plans are based on Giddens concepts.
- Logical format for conceptual nursing care plans includes a
definition of the concept, clinical problems, common causes,
manifestations, outcomes, interventions, related concepts, and related
clinical problems.
- Guidance for prioritized care planning organizes interventions in
an assess-intervene-teach format, to help identify the most important
priority interventions for patients.
- Use of standardized nursing language conveys concepts and clinical
problems in easily understandable language that is commonly used in
clinical settings, organizing care plans around terminology recognized
by the American Nurses Association and easily understood by other
healthcare professionals.
- UNIQUE! Wide-ranging approach covers concepts that are not
addressed in other texts, such as health disparities, risk in
pregnancy, impaired immunity, substance use, sensory deficits,
continuity of care, and the dying process.
- Introduction opens the book by explaining the components of a
conceptual nursing care plan and how to use the book to create
patient-centered nursing care plans.
- Conceptual Care Map Creator on the Evolve website helps document
care planning projects and clinical assignments.
- Expert authors Mariann Harding and Debra Hagler are nursing
thought leaders and editors of the bestselling Lewis's Medical
Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems.
