Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span

- Presents diagnoses by priority.


- Contains comprehensive rationales for every intervention.

- Includes index of Nursing Diagnoses with page numbers.

- Covers complementary therapies.

- Focuses on individualized care for client across the lifespan.

- Applies the body system approach to care planning.

- Provides guidelines that cover total patient needs—physical, cultural, sexual,nutritional, and psychosocial.

- Shows what to expect in the hospital and community-based settings.

- Explains how to document for government regulations and third-party payers.

- Identifies discharge plan considerations.