Description

Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 13th Edition, is a care-planning handbook designed to help you create individualized nursing care plans with ease and confidence. Edited by Mary Beth Flynn Makic and Marina Reyna Martinez-Kratz and published by Mosby in May 2022, this 1,088-page edition links patient problems to nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions. It is a working tool for clinical placements and care-plan assignments. This page gives you the bibliographic details, an online FlipBook preview and the PDF eBook after purchase.

Who uses Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook?

• Nursing students who must write care plans for every clinical placement.
• Newly qualified nurses who want a structured way to move from assessment to a plan of care.
• Experienced nurses who need to document care in a standardized nursing language.
• Nurse educators and preceptors who review care plans with students.

A care-planning handbook works best next to a solid fundamentals textbook that explains the nursing process itself. Our guide to nursing textbooks for students suggests how to combine the two.

How the handbook is organised

The publisher describes an easy, step-by-step approach to care planning. In practice, Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is known for helping you start from what you observe in the patient, such as a symptom, a medical diagnosis or a clinical situation, and then find the nursing diagnoses that may apply. For each nursing diagnosis, it sets out outcomes and interventions you can adapt to the individual patient, using the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis terminology taught in most nursing programmes.

The online FlipBook preview on this page lets you browse the table of contents and a few sample entries, so you can see the layout before you buy.

About the 13th Edition

This page offers the 13th Edition of Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, published by Mosby in 2022 (ISBN-13 9780323776837). Nursing diagnosis lists are revised periodically, and programmes often specify which edition they follow, so confirm with your school or clinical instructor that the 13th Edition matches your course requirements.

How to use it for care plans

Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is a reference, not a book to read from start to finish. These habits make it more useful:

1. Assess first, then look up. Collect your assessment data before opening the book, so the diagnoses you choose are supported by your own findings.
2. Personalize every outcome. Rewrite suggested outcomes with a timeframe and a measurable target for your patient instead of copying them unchanged.
3. Explain the rationale. For each intervention you choose, write one sentence explaining why it fits this patient; this is what instructors look for.

For the professional framework behind nursing judgement and documentation, the American Nurses Association is a useful reference.

Format, preview and access

A searchable PDF on your phone is handy on placement; see PDF vs EPUB for medical textbooks to compare formats.

Books to use alongside it

• Fundamentals of Nursing, 11th Edition: the nursing process and core skills behind every care plan.
• Davis’s Diseases and Disorders, Sixth Edition: quick background on the condition your patient is being treated for.
• Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, 12th Edition: in-depth medical-surgical content for adult placements.
• Lehne’s Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 10th Edition: to check the medications in your plan.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook useful for students?

Yes. It is widely used by nursing students to prepare care plans, and it also suits practising nurses who document care with nursing diagnoses.

Which edition is this?

The 13th Edition, published by Mosby in May 2022. Check that it matches the edition your programme requires.

Does it include the publisher’s online resources?

No. You receive the handbook as a PDF eBook. Publisher platforms, activation codes and supplementary resources are not included.

How fast can I access the eBook?

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