Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy!

Emily Matthews, MSc, BSc, DipHE, PG Cert Ed, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Fulbourn and Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy! is the answer! It is the resource every student needs to master this vital subject, focusing on the skills necessary to develop patient-specific, relevant, timely nursing care plans. Starting with the nursing process, the book provides the foundations for writing practical care plans, walks students through the care planning process, builds the critical thinking skills needed to individualise care, and offers tips on incorporating evidence-based standards and rationales into nursing interventions. Handy examples of care plans appear throughout the book. Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy! is packed with numerous reader-friendly features including numerous illustrations, cartoons, checklists, quick quizzes, memory joggers and chapter summaries, making it accessible and attractive to learners. Drawing on current UK guidance, it is rooted soundly in current standards of practice, making it an essential resource for nursing students. FEATURES: • Summaries of key points • Clear, simple explanations of techniques • Definitions of key terms • Plentiful illustrations that clearly explain key techniques and difficult concepts • Bullets and checklists that make it easy to spot important points at a glance • Highlighted key facts • Quick quizzes at the end of each chapter • Under construction - offers sample concept maps and care plan components, plus tips for making care plans patient specific and individualised • Weighing the evidence - provides information on the latest evidence-based standards of care used in the sample care plans • Teacher knows best - imparts important reminders from Instructor Joy that help students understand how to apply content • Memory joggers - mnemonic devices that help students remember key concepts and content Contents Part I Care planning using the nursing process • 1 Introduction to care planning • 2 Assessment • 3 Nursing diagnosis • 4 Planning • 5 Implementation • 6 Evaluation • 7 Putting it all together Part II Nursing diagnoses by medical diagnosis • 8 Medical-surgical diagnoses • 9 Maternal-neonatal diagnoses • 10 Pediatric diagnoses • 11 Psychiatric diagnoses