Meg Gulanick

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Diagnosis/Assessment** Master the skills you need to create customized nursing care plans! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 11th Edition features 232 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features ICNP diagnoses, highlighted QSEN competencies, and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are a full-color format, seven new care plans, and a new online care plan template that makes it easier to create care plans. The #1 care planning book is better than ever and will help you learn to think like a nurse! NEW! Seven additional care plans cover: Impaired Skin Integrity Infection Underweight Overflow Incontinence of Urine Eating Disorders Brain Tumor Pancreatic Cancer NEW! Fully updated coverage includes the latest therapeutic interventions and rationales NEW! Full-color format makes this text more user-friendly and accessible UPDATED! Using Nursing Care Plans to Individualize and Improve Care chapter features more illustrations to help you understand the components of a care plan, as well as how to prioritize those which are most appropriate for your patients UPDATED! Content reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international clinical practice guidelines Care plans for 77 “clinical problems” (formerly “nursing diagnoses”) use a conceptual model organization and include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for creating your own individualized care plans Care plans for 155 disorders encompass virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system Prioritized care planning guidance internally organizes care plans from "actual" to "risk for" clinical problems, from general to specific interventions, and from independent to collaborative/interprofessional interventions to help you prioritize the most important, therapeutic interventions Care plan format for clinical problems includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions Care plan format by disorder includes synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a definition, common etiologies, supporting data, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant clinical problem NEW! Care plan template on the Evolve companion website gives you a starting point for creating your own plans of care

Get everything you need to create and customize effective nursing care plans, now with evidence-based ICNP® diagnoses! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Gulanick & Myers' Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 10th Edition features more than 200 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features highlighted QSEN competencies and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are ICNP® diagnoses, care plans on LGBTQ health issues and on electrolytes and acid-base balance, and a new Online Care Planner that makes it easier than ever to customize care plans. Written by noted educators Meg Gulanick and Judith L. Myers, this #1 care planning book will help you learn to think like a nurse! 61 patient problem care plans include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for you to create your own individualized care plans. 164 disorder care plans cover virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body system. Patient problem care plan format includes a definition/explanation of the diagnosis, related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions. Disorder care plan format covers synonyms for the disorder (for ease in cross referencing), a definition, common related factors, defining characteristics, expected outcomes, ongoing assessment, and therapeutic interventions for each relevant nursing diagnosis. Prioritized care planning guidance internally organizes care plans from "actual" to "risk" diagnoses, from general to specific interventions, and from independent to collaborative/interprofessional interventions, to help you select the most important, priority interventions for your particular patients. NEW! Updated care plans are now based on the evidence-based, complete, and internationally accepted International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP®) nursing diagnoses. NEW! 19 all-new care plans are featured in this edition. NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international guidelines. NEW! Online Care Planner on the Evolve website allows you to easily generate customized care plans based on the book's content. NEW! Improved focus on core content includes several care plans that have been moved from the book's Evolve website.