Advisory board

iv

Contributors and consultants

v

Foreword

vii

PART I

CARE PLANNING USING THE NURSING PROCESS

1

Introduction to care planning

3

2

Assessment

23

3

Nursing diagnosis

57

4

Planning

83

5

Implementation

115

6

Evaluation

137

7

Putting it all together

153

PART II

NURSING DIAGNOSES BY MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS

8

Medical-surgical diagnoses

135

9

Maternal-neonatal diagnoses

243

10

Pediatric diagnoses

251

11

Psychiatric diagnoses

263

APPENDICES AND INDEX

NANDA-I nursing diagnoses by domain

272

Selected references

275

Index

277