Ulrich & Canale's Nursing Care Planning Guides - E-Book, 7th Edition
Prioritization, Delegation, and Critical Thinking
Date of Publication: 10/2010
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.
Author Information
By Nancy Haugen, PhD, RN, Professor & Kathleen Strunk Endowed Chair,Department of Nursing Chair and Sandra J. Galura, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor,Director, Master’s in Nursing Leadership and Management Program,Department of Nursing Systems,Academic Health Sciences Center,University of Central Florida College of Nursing