Nurse's Pocket Guide: Problems, Diagnoses, Prioritized Solutions, and Rationales
Title Details
17th Ed.
2026 © F. A. Davis Company
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.
This guide is a strong supplemental resource for undergraduate nursing students to use in the clinical setting. Nursing faculty may find this a useful resource to use in pre- and post-clinical conferences to promote critical thinking.
Nurses in all clinical practice and research settings will find this guide helpful as it contains 460 disorders/health conditions listed alphabetically and coded by specialty, and it identifies nursing priorities and interventions across each specialty area. It also will aid nursing students in enhancing their care plan writing skills through their use of the nursing process.
Doody's Review
Score: 93/100
Stars: 4
"This pocket guide was first published in 1985, which attests to its continued importance in undergraduate nursing education. It strikes a strong balance between depth and accessibility for nursing students. Its updated, evidence-based content makes care planning more intuitive, while the emphasis on documentation and clinical judgment supports academic success and safe patient outcomes. This is an important go-to reference to be used in the clinical setting to support clinical reasoning at every step of the nursing process."
-- Susan DeNisco, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP (Sacred Heart University) Doody's Review
"This quick reference guide contains sample assessment tools, care plans, and concept mapping information essentials for nurses and nursing students. While there are other quick reference resources available on nursing diagnoses, none provide the detail necessary to promote a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of nursing diagnoses, priority-based care, and their associated rationales in one handy reference."
-- Mary Nasta, MSN, RN-BC, OCN (Monmouth University School of Nursing and Health Studies) Doody's Review - previous edition
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