Ulrich and Canale's Nursing Care Planning Guides 7th edition: Prioritization, Delegation, and Critical Thinking






Practical and comprehensive, this essential resource helps you plan individualized care for clients in a variety of settings, including acute care, extended care, and home care environments. It features 33 detailed nursing diagnosis care plans and 65 disease/disorder care plans that are keyed to specific expected outcomes and interventions. This book also includes the popular Online Care Planner that allows you to edit and print standardized nursing diagnosis care plans.


Key Features
  • Offers the most in-depth care plans of any planning book, fostering critical thinking and promoting effective clinical decision-making.
  • 33 separate nursing diagnosis care plans provide detailed interventions with rationales and documentation guidelines for the most common nursing diagnoses.
  • 65 comprehensive care plans serve as a complete reference for the most common disorders in acute care, extended care, and home care settings.
  • Body system organization makes content easy to locate.
  • Nursing/collaborative diagnoses are linked to actions and rationales.
  • Specific points for discharge teaching serve as guidelines for planning client education.
  • A complete discussion of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging helps you understand the unique considerations of caring for this population group.


New to This Edition
  • A new care plan format focuses on prioritized nursing interventions, interventions that can be delegated, and documentation criteria, as well as differentiating between independent and collaborative nursing actions.
  • Features 8 new nursing diagnosis care plans on topics such as comfort, confusion, contamination, decision-making, falls/injury, unstable glucose level, risk-prone health behavior, and self-care.
  • Includes 9 new disease/disorder care plans for Abdominal Trauma, Alzheimer's Disease, Asthma, Enteral Nutrition, Intravenous Conscious Sedation, Internal Radiation Therapy (Brachytherapy), Mechanical Ventilation, Parkinson’s Disease, and Total Parenteral Nutrition.
  • Evidence-based practice content presents the latest research findings and standards of care.
  • Updated NANDA nursing diagnoses, NIC interventions, and NOC outcomes reflect the latest nursing taxonomies.
  • An open, user-friendly design makes it easy to quickly locate essential information.
  • The companion Evolve website features 71 new narrated 3D pathophysiology animations that correspond to disorders content in the text.


Contents 
  1. PRIORITIZATION, DELEGATION, AND CLINICAL JUDGMENT IN CLIENT MANAGEMENT
  2. SELECTED NURSING DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS, RATIONALES, AND DOCUMENTATION
    • Activity Intolerance
    • Airway Clearance, Ineffective
    • Anxiety
    • Aspiration, Risk for
    • Breathing Pattern, Ineffective
    • Cardiac Output, Decreased
    • Comfort, Readiness for Enhanced NEW!
    • Confusion, Acute, Risk for NEW!
    • Constipation
    • Contamination/Contamination, Risk for NEW!
    • Coping, Ineffective
    • Decision-Making, Readiness for Enhanced NEW!
    • Diarrhea
    • Falls, Risk for/Injury Risk for NEW!
    • Fluid Volume, Deficient
    • Fluid Volume, Excess
    • Gas Exchange, Impaired
    • Glucose Level, Risk for Unstable NEW!
    • Grieving
    • Health Behavior, Risk-Prone NEW!
    • Infection, Risk for
    • Mobility, Impaired Physical
    • Nutrition, Imbalanced: Less Than Body Requirements
    • Oral Mucous Membrane, Impaired
    • Pain, Acute
    • Self-Care, Readiness for Enhanced NEW!
    • Self-Concept, Disturbed
    • Skin Integrity, Impaired, Risk for
    • Sleep Pattern, Disturbed
    • Swallowing, Impaired
    • Tissue Perfusion, Ineffective
    • Urinary Incontinence
    • Urinary Retention
  3. NURSING CARE OF THE CLIENT HAVING SURGERY
    • Intravenous Conscious Sedation NEW!
    • Preoperative Care
    • Postoperative Care
  4. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN RESPIRATORY FUNCTION
    • Asthma NEW!
    • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
    • Mechanical Ventilation NEW!
    • Pneumonia
    • Pneumothorax
    • Pulmonary Embolism
    • Thoracic Surgery
    • Tuberculosis
  5. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION
    • Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
    • Angina Pectoris
    • Carotid Endarterectomy
    • Cardiac Dysrhythmias
    • Deep Vein Thrombosis/Thromboembolism
    • Femoropopliteal Bypass
    • Heart Failure
    • Heart Surgery: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) or Valve Replacement
    • Hypertension
    • Myocardial Infarction
    • Pacemaker/Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation
  6. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION
    • Alzheimer's Disease NEW!
    • Cerebrovascular Accident
    • Craniocerebral Trauma/Craniotomy
    • Parkinson's Disease NEW!
    • Spinal Cord Injury
  7. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN HEMATOLOGIC AND IMMUNE FUNCTION
    • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
    • Sepsis
    • Splenectomy
  8. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN METABOLIC FUNCTION
    • Diabetes Mellitus
    • Hyperthyroidism /Thyroidectomy
    • Hypothyroidism
  9. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
    • Abdominal Trauma NEW!
    • Appendicitis/Appendectomy
    • Bowel Diversion: Ileostomy
    • Enteral Nutrition NEW!
    • Gastrectomy
    • Gastric Reduction/Bariatric Surgery
    • Gastrointestinal (GI) Bleed, Acute
    • Intestinal Obstruction/Bowel Resection
    • Peptic Ulcer
    • Total Parenteral Nutrition NEW!
    • Upper Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease
  10. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN THE LIVER, BILIARY TRACT, AND PANCREAS
    • Cholecystectomy
    • Cholelithiasis/Cholecystitis
    • Cirrhosis
    • Hepatitis
    • Pancreatitis, Acute
  11. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN THE KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT
    • Bladder Neck Suspension (Vesicourethral Suspension)
    • Cystectomy with Urinary Diversion
    • Nephrectomy
    • Renal Failure (Acute and Chronic)
  12. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION
    • Amputation
    • Fractured Hip with Internal Fixation or Prosthesis Insertion
    • Laminectomy/Diskectomy With or Without Fusion
    • Total Joint Arthroplasty
  13. THE CLIENT WITH ALTERATIONS IN THE BREAST AND REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
    • Colporrhaphy (Anterior and Posterior Repair)
    • Hysterectomy With Salpingectomy and Oophorectomy
    • Mastectomy
    • Radical Prostatectomy
    • Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP)
  14. THE CLIENT RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR NEOPLASTIC DISORDERS
    • Chemotherapy
    • External Radiation Therapy (Teletherapy)
    • Internal Radiation Therapy (Brachytherapy) NEW!
  15. NURSING CARE OF THE ELDERLY CLIENT
  16. END-OF-LIFE NURSING CARE

About The Authors
  • Nancy Haugen, RN, MN, PhD, Associate Professor and ABSN Program Chair, School of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University, Oakland, CA, USA.
  • Sandra J. Galura, MSN, RN, CCRN, CPAN, Clinical Nurse Educator, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 976 pages
  • Publisher: Saunders; 7 edition (2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1437701744
  • ISBN-13: 978-1437701746
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.4 inches
List Price: $56.95 
 
 

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