Medical-Surgical Care Planning ANNOTATION
"Updated information makes this guide completely current on AIDS & Alzheimer's disease, DRGs, NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, the JCAHO standards for hospital accreditation, & discharge planning."
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This highly popular reference includes plans for drug overdose, Guillain-Barre syndrome, adult respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery, anorexia and bulimia, liver failure, major burns, acute renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, AIDS and Alzheimer's disease, DRGs, NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, JCAHO standards for hospital accreditation, discharge planning, and collaborative nursing and medical activities. Each plan covers DRG data, possible assessment findings, actual and potential patient problems, interventions and rationales, discharge planning guidelines, documentation checklist, and selected references. Plans are grouped by general care needs and by body system disorders.
SYNOPSIS
Provides 15 general care plans for common patient problems and 63 care plans for specific medical disorders and surgical conditions, organized by body system. Each care plan lists diagnosis-related group information, time frames, precipitating factors, and assessment guidelines, then outlines interventions and rationales for each nursing diagnosis. The fourth edition eliminates the section on eye disorders. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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