Nursing Care Planning Guides: Prioritization, Delegation, and Clinical Reasoning

Confidently plan individualized care for clients in a variety of clinical settings! Practical and comprehensive, Nursing Care Planning Guides, 9th Edition, helps you create care plans for clients across acute care, extended care, and home settings, with a focus on prioritization, delegation, and clinical reasoning. This full-color edition is organized around patient problems and offers new care plans, additional diagnostic tests, and a discharge-planning care plan to support efficient clinical decision-making. 30+ patient problem care plans provide detailed interventions with rationales and documentation guidelines for the most common patient problems60+ comprehensive care plans cover the most common disorders in acute care, extended care, and home care settingsPractical care plan format with a focus on prioritized nursing interventions, interventions that can be delegated, and documentation criteria, as well as differentiation between independent and collaborative nursing actions, provides a comprehensive and practical care planning toolBody system organization makes content easy to locateCoverage of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging helps you understand the unique considerations of caring for this growing population groupHelpful care planning tools on the companion Evolve website include animations, nursing skills videos, additional care plans, and a care plan templateNEW! Full-color format makes this edition more user-friendly and accessible than everNEW! Additional in-depth care plans help foster clinical reasoning and reflect the latest evidence-based treatment protocols and national and international guidelinesNEW! Revised care plans are organized around patient problemsNEW! Diagnostic tests have been added where relevantNEW! Discharge-planning care plan supports efficient clinical decision-making

• Publication date: 3 November 2026
• Page count: 928
• Dimensions: Height 276 mm; Width 216 mm
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9780443105296