Looking for an easier path to care planning? Create a map!
Concept mapping is a clear, visual, and systematic model for gathering and categorizing relevant assessment data, identifying patient problems, and developing patient goals, interventions, and outcomes for each nursing diagnosis. A concept map is your guide to nursing care in any clinical setting.
This text provides students with systematic tools to assess, identify and solve patients' problems. The concept mapping approach helps students to visualize the interrelationships between medical diagnoses, nursing diagnoses, assessment data and treatments.
Key Features
- Provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care.
- Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum.
- Works with or without nursing diagnoses.
- Saves time and improves clinical performance.
- Emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care.
- Teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly.
- Establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, physical assessment data, treatments, medications, laboratory data, and history data.
New to this edition
- NEW! Concept maps with more information on basic care and psychosocial issues.
- MORE! Additional case scenarios so you can practice creating a care map.
- NEW! Test Yourself Quiz to ensure you understand the theory behind creating a care map.
- NEW! 20-minute podcast explaining concept mapping.
- UPDATED! Care Map Generator online at DavisPlus with clear, concise instructions.
Contents
- "It was the Night Before Clinical…"
- Gathering Clinical Data: The Foundation for the Concept Care Maps
- Concept Care Maps: Grouping Clinical Data in a Meaningful Manner
- Nursing Interventions: So Many Problems, So Little Time
- Nursing Implementation: Using Concept Care Maps as Nursing Care Plans at the Health Care Agency
- Including Psycho-Social-Cultural Problems in the Concept Care Maps
- Concept Care Maps as the basis of Documentation and Communication with the Healthcare Team
- After the Clinical Day is Over: Patient Evaluations, Self-Evaluations, and Grading the Final Concept Care Maps.
About the Author
- Pamela McHugh Schuster, RN, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 3 edition (July 29, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803627432
- ISBN-13: 978-0803627437
List Price: $42.95