Full Description
Master care planning with concept maps!
A concept map is an easy-to-construct, visual tool that helps you organize your assessment data, identify patient problems, determine the appropriate nursing diagnoses and interventions, and assess the outcomes.
Nursing Concept Care Maps for Providing Safe Patient Care presents 200 sample care maps covering the diseases and disorders you'll encounter most often in clinical practice. They'll also help you develop the critical-thinking skills you need to plan safe and effective nursing care.
You'll immediately see the relationship between the patient's problem, the underlying condition and your clinical response. You'll also see the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, history and physical assessment data, treatments, medications and laboratory data.
Contents
Introduction
Concept Maps for Infants
Concept Maps for Pediatric Patients
Concept Maps for Women's Health
Concept Maps for Men
Concept Maps for Medical or Surgical Patients
Concept Maps for Patients with Psychiatric/Mental Health Disorders
Concept Maps for Geriatric Patients
Concept Maps for Community or Population Processes
Concept Maps for Systems to Promote Leadership Processes
Concept Maps for Patients in Critical Care
References and Resources
Appendices
Morning Report Worksheet
Clinical Assessment Tool
Patient Overview
Lab Values and Diagnostic Tests
Medications
Nurse's Notes
