Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span, 11th Edition

Updated with NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2024-2026

The all-in-one care planning resource!
Here’s the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your analytical, critical-thinking, and clinical judgment skills. You’ll find over 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features…

Client assessment database for each medical condition
Complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority
Diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean
Actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales
NANDA, NIC, and NOC’s most recent guidelines and terminology
Evidence-based citations
Index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders


A must for nursing students!“This book has helped me significantly in nursing school. I definitely recommend this book for nursing students. The book is organized nicely … makes it easy to find nursing diagnoses and rationales.”—Online Reviewer

Nursing school life saver.“A great book. It not only helps with writing care plans, but it’s also fantastic to use as reference on clinical days. Scan through it to look up your Pt’s ailments and you will always sound prepared when your instructor is asking you a million of questions.”—Natalia G., Online Reviewer

Life saver!“This book makes it so much easier to create care plans!! I wish I would’ve bought this in the beginning of nursing school.”—Online Reviewer


New! Section on recognizing patient cues, highlighted by a clinical judgment icon, which guides the nurse in determining the appropriate nursing diagnosis, generating solutions, and taking action
New! Online appendix for instructors maps nursing concepts to care plans for concept-based curricula
Updated! All care plans updated to ensure they reflect current treatment recommendations
Updated! Diagnostic Test tables reflect state-of-the-art diagnostic regimes, the most recent advances in testing and pharmacological therapies

Care plans focus on clinical judgment and individualized care for clients across the lifespan and have an emphasis on evidence-based practice.
A client assessment database for each medical condition for quick review and retrieval of information.