Nursing care plans [electronic resource] : guidelines for individualizing client care across the life span / Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nursing care plans : guidelines for individualizing client care across the life span -- Index of Diseases/Disorders -- Key to Essential Terminology -- Nursing Diagnoses Accepted for Use and Research for 2012-2014 -- Dedication -- Contributors to The 9Th Edition -- Reviewers for The 9Th Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents in Brief -- Detailed Contents -- Contents on Davis Plus -- Chapter 1 Issues and Trends in Nursing and Healthcare Delivery -- Chapter 2 The Nursing Process: Planning Care Using Nursing Diagnoses -- Chapter 3 Critical Thinking: Adaptation of Theory to Practice -- Chapter 4 Cardiovascular -- Chapter 5 Respiratory -- Chapter 6 Neurological/Sensory Disorders -- Chapter 7 Gastrointestinal Disorders -- Chapter 8 Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders -- Chapter 9 Diseases of the Blood/Blood-Forming Organs -- Chapter 10 Renal and Urinary Tract -- Chapter 11 Women's Reproductive -- Chapter 12 Orthopedic -- Chapter 13 Integumentary -- Chapter 14 Systemic Infections and Immunological Disorders -- Chapter 15 General -- Bibliography -- Index of Nursing Diagnoses.

Updated with NANDA-I 2012-2014 Diagnoses This all-in-one care planning resource provides the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care, while also honing your critical thinking and analytical skills. Thoroughly updated and revised throughout, 167 care plans reflect the latest NANDA-I diagnoses and terminology. You'll also now find an expanded emphasis on evidence-based practice through citations that support the incidence of the problem, the validity of the diagnostic tests, and the recommended nursing interventions. The Plus Code, inside new, printed texts, unlocks a wealth of instructor and student learning resources online at DavisPlus, including your Davis Digital Version, your complete text online. You'll also have access to all of the care plans in the book as well as additional care plans. Use the Online Disorder Lookup to easily search through 800 disorders to select the most appropriate diagnoses for your client.