This book is designed as a guide to using North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) nursing diagnoses as the primary base for the planning of care. Many expected outcomes, target dates, nursing actions, and evaluation algorithms are given as guides. New to this fourth edition is a comprehensive life span approach, and nursing...

Prepare your graduate students to take leadership roles inthe future of Advance Practice Nursing. The author address the major issuesfacing Advanced Practice Nursing today from a collective perspective thatbegins with its historical roots and progresses to contemporary concerns andtrends. This approach enables APNs to understanding the...

Everything your students need to know about caring for patients is in this one portable reference! Now in its third edition, Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual, containing complete information on hundreds of disorders, is still a "must have" reference for every nurse. In a concise format, this handbook allows...

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Social Policy Statement of 1980 was the first to define nursing as the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems. This definition, when combined with the ANA Standards of Practice, has provided impetus and support for the use of nursing diagnosis. Defining nursing...

Continuing the success of their previous books, authors Linda Williams and Paula Hopper deliver another trend-setting edition that explores and teaches the "why" of medical/surgical nursing. Complex issues are presented in a clear and easy-to-digest way that encourages LPN students to think critically while learning real world...