Nursing Diagnosis Handbook - CD-ROM PDA Software Powered by Skyscape: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 8e

This convenient handheld software offers on-the-go access to all of the essential care planning information in the new edition of Nursing Diagnosis Handbook. Quick-reference features include full-text search capability, intuitive navigation, and built-in display adjustment tools.

• Offers guidelines to help you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and relevant patient assessment findings.
• Contains an A-to-Z list of medical diagnoses, diagnostic procedures, clinical states, and symptoms to assist in identifying the appropriate nursing diagnosis for your patient.
• Provides the defining characteristics, risk, and related factors you need to confirm the diagnosis, determine desired outcomes, plan interventions with evidence-based rationales, and provide effective nursing care.
• FCovers both independent and collaborative nursing interventions.
• Includes pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations as appropriate.

• Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.
• Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.
• Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.
• Covers important information on concept mapping.
• Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.
• Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.
• Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.