Nursing Care Plans, 6th Edition

Learn how to create nursing care plans, effectively document care, and succeed in the course with Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient and Family Centered Care, Sixth Edition. Easy-to-understand and packed with practical tools to prepare you for clinical practice, this proven book focuses on the nursing plans that are most important, ensuring that you learn what you need to know and that you can find the information you need easily, without being distracted by irrelevant information.

This resource will help you understand the various considerations to keep in mind when creating nursing care plans through Safety and Quality icons that to show risk severity and include suggestions for action. Icons include:

• TRAP: Transitional Risk Assessment Plan
• STAR: Stop Think Act Review
• SBAR: Notes on communications with agents of change
• CAR: Clinical Alert Report that integrates information pertaining to Nurses Aid" and Hand off /Changing in shift information

Also features a user-friendly format that splits Collaborative Problems and Nursing Diagnosis in each chapter and organizes care plans by Medical Conditions, Surgical Procedures, and Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures.