With more than 100 customizable care plans, Swearingen's All-in-One Nursing Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric-Mental Health is an easy-to-use, evidence-based, curriculum-wide reference to guide development of patient-centered nursing care plans to promote optimal patient outcomes.1.UNIQUE! Includes care plans for all four major clinical areas: medical-surgical, OB/maternity, pediatrics, and psychiatric-mental health nursing.
2. A consistent format for each care plan facilitates more efficient planning, with headings for Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, and more.
3. Interprofessional patient problems focus equips users to communicate with other health professionals in the interprofessional language of patient problems, rather than in the nursing-specific language of nursing diagnosis.
4. UNIQUE! Colorful design (each major section printed with a different 2nd color) makes the book more user friendly and includes color-coded tabs and improved cross-referencing and navigation aids for faster information retrieval.
5. Safety Icons highlight assessments and interventions that support the Safety competency of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.
6. Patient problems are prioritized in order of importance and physiologic patient needs to help users focus on the most important assessments and interventions.
7. Detailed rationales for each nursing intervention help users apply concepts to specific patient situations in clinical practice.
UNIQUE! Care plan focused on support of LGBTQ patients ensures sensitive, professional nursing care to patients whose unique needs often go unrecognized.1. Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based treatment guidelines and national and international treatment protocols.
2. NEW and UNIQUE! Each care plan is now organized by the six cognitive skills identified in the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (CJMM) to help students develop the clinical judgment skills needed for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX(R) Exam (NGN) and in clinical practice.
3. NEW and UNIQUE! Now incorporates the AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (the "BSN Essentials").
4. NEW care plan on Breastfeeding. Additional care plans to be added (and commensurate care plans to be deleted) will be determined prior to the start of development based partly on customer reviews now in process.
