Ackley and Ladwig’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook

An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

13th Edition

Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Marina Martinez-Kratz
Elsevier
1,088 pages
ISBN: 9780323776837
April 2022

This handbook uses an easy, three-step system to guide you through client assessment, nursing diagnosis, and care planning. Step-by-step instructions show how to implement care and evaluate outcomes, and help you build skills in diagnostic reasoning and critical thinking. To make care planning easier, this handbook allows you to look up nursing diagnoses and care plans for more than 1450 client symptoms, as well as interventions from NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification) and outcomes from NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification).