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Nurse's Pocket Guide: Problems, Diagnoses, Prioritized Solutions, and Rationales

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17th Ed.

Mary Frances Moorhouse RN, MSN, CRRN; Christina Baughn, DNP, RN, CNE; Margaret Moore-Nadler, DNP, RN

ISBN-13: 978-1-7196-5036-6

eISBN-13: 978-1-7196-5510-1

Nursing, Point of Care, Diagnosis

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Connect clinical judgment to nursing diagnosis.

The perfect pocket guide makes care planning easier.

This quick-reference tool helps you plan effective patient care in any setting while developing your clinical judgment and decision-making skills. It has exactly what you need to select the appropriate diagnosis to plan your patients’ care effectively.

Key Features:

  • • Alphabetized monographs featuring 174 of the most commonly used nursing diagnoses in the clinical learning environment
  • • Associated actions/interventions presented by priority and written as client problem/need statements
  • • Icons within the prioritized interventions to indicate acute care, collaboration, community/home care, cultural considerations, diagnostic studies, evidence-based practice, medications, and pediatric/geriatric/lifespan considerations
  • • Defining characteristics presented subjectively and objectively
  • • Documentation section that focuses on the other steps of the nursing process, reminding students of the importance and necessity of recording each step
  • • NIC and NOC labels at the end of each diagnosis
  • • Index with hundreds of diseases/disorders with prioritized associated nursing diagnoses

New to this Edition:

  • New & Updated! Completely up to date with diagnoses from NANDA-I 2024-2026 and ICNP (International Classification for Nursing Practice) 2022, with an icon for each, broadening students’ understanding of the standardized nursing languages they’ll encounter throughout their careers.
  • New! Each diagnosis updated to incorporate the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM)) terminology, including “Recognize Clues,” “Generate Solutions,” “Take Actions,” and “Evaluation,” reinforcing the connection between identifying problems and determining their solutions.

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