Nursing Diagnosis Handbook

This text identifies nursing diagnoses and patient care plans, discussing diagnosis using assessment findings as well as other known data. It also provides a list of approximately 1000 signs and symptoms, diagnoses and therapeutic modalities, and contains definitions, and suggested interventions.

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This text provides a guide to identifying nursing diagnoses and patient care plans. It is organized into three sections. Section one explains how the nurse arrives at a nursing diagnosis using assessment findings as well as other known data; section two contains an alphabetical list of approximately 1000 client signs and symptoms, medical diagnoses, therapeutic modalities, nursing diagnoses and psychiatric diagnoses; and section three provides definitions, defining characteristics, client/goal outcomes; suggested nursing interventions with rationales, and client/family teaching protocols for all NANDA-approved diagnoses.