Nursing Care Plans Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span 10th Edition by Doenges et al. (2019)

Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span, Tenth Edition by Marilynn E. Doenges APRN BC and colleagues is the all-in-one care planning resource, published by F.A. Davis Company in January 2019. Rated 4.6 stars by over 677 reviewers, this trusted text is updated with NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2018–20 and provides step-by-step guidance for developing individualized plans of care while honing critical-thinking and analytical skills.

The book contains approximately 160 care plans covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each care plan features a client assessment database for each medical condition, complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority, diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for tests and what results mean, actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales, NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC guidelines and terminology, evidence-based citations, and an index of nursing diagnoses and associated disorders.

Key areas covered include: cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, reproductive, and integumentary conditions; mental health disorders; perioperative nursing; maternal-newborn care; pediatric conditions; and community and home health care. An essential resource for students in BSN, ADN, and LPN programs preparing for the NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN, and NGN examinations, and for nurses needing a comprehensive, up-to-date care planning guide in clinical practice.