MANUAL OF NURSING DIAGNOSIS, Ninth Edition, contains the evolving diagnostic language of professional nursing and includes all of the new and revised diagnoses from the fourteenth North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) conference. The Manual presents the nursing diagnosis taxonomy under the framework of Functional Health Patterns, created by Marjory Gordon. It provides a quick, pocket reference for students and practitioners to access nursing diagnoses and covers definitions, defining characteristics, and (when applicable) etiological or related factors for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, as well as additional diagnoses developed by the author. It is organized into five parts: (I) Functional Health Patterns Typology, (II) Functional Health Patterns Assessment Guidelines, (III) Use of Diagnostic Categories in Clinical Practice, (IV) Documentation: Format and Example, and (V) Diagnostic Categories. · Functional Health Pattern organization aids both client assessment and diagnosis. The 11 Functional Health Patterns include: Health Perception-Health-Management, Nutritional-Metabolic, Elimination, Activity-Exercise, Sleep-Rest, Cognitive-Perceptual, Self-Perception-Self-Concept, Role-Relationship, Sexuality-Reproductive, Coping-Stress-Tolerance, and Value-Belief. · Over 150 nursing diagnoses with listings of definition, defining characteristics, and when appropriate, etiological or related factors . · Identifies high-risk populations for diagnoses in which incidence if fairly well-established: those conditions described by nursing diagnoses are prevalent in certain groups of people in certain situations or have particular experiences or treatments. · Written by a present NANDA board member (and past President) who is well-known and well-respected in the nursing community for her work on nursing diagnosis. · Comprehensive glossary to aid the nursing student or practicing nurse in finding definitions · Alphabetical listing of diagnoses with pages numbers on the end pages to accommodate quick access to nursing diagnoses · Diagnostic category index on the back cover to assist the user to quickly find a specific functional health pattern · Special notes pages opposite each nursing diagnosis for individual observations about specific nursing diagnoses

Manual of Nursing Diagnosis

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Gordon PhD RN FAAN, Marjory

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NURSING DIAGNOSIS encourages readers to develop critical thinking skills applicable to diagnostic reasoning and judgment in clinical practice. This valuable reference helps the reader understand nursing diagnoses and their development and use in care delivery. Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-157-4

Nursing Diagnosis: Process and Application

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 <li>Offers a brief overview of assessment and functional health patterns. </li>
 <li>Emphasizes how to conduct a nursingfocused, holistic assessment and the pertinent findings from the physical examination supporting patient complaints. </li>
 <li>Contains a specific tab for each Functional Health Pattern. </li>
 <li>Each pattern tab progresses from the importance of the pattern to individual, family, and community assessments, and includes... </li>
 <li>a section on why that pattern is important</li>
 <li>pertinent history questions to ask to elicit relevant data.</li>
 <li>prioritized list of dysfunctional patterns that includes NANDA definitions with defining characteristics and related statements, NIC and NOC. </li>
 <li>Delivers all of the features that Davis’s Notes users rely on...concise, wellorganized, easy-to-reference content, easy-to-use spiral binding, and waterproof pages on which to record data and then wipe clean with alcohol. </li>
 
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Assess Notes: Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning (Davis's Notes)

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Manual of Nursing Diagnosis

Nursing Diagnosis: Process and Application

Assess Notes: Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning (Davis's Notes)