**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 3rd Place in Medical-Surgical Nursing, 2025****Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Diagnosis/Assessment**Master the skills you need to create customized nursing care plans! Covering the most common medical-surgical nursing diagnoses and clinical problems, Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 11th Edition features 232 care plans, each reflecting the latest evidence-based guidelines and national and international treatment protocols. It also features ICNP diagnoses, highlighted QSEN competencies, and a clear differentiation of nursing and collaborative interventions. New to this edition are a full-color format, seven new care plans, and a new online care plan template that makes it easier to create care plans. The #1 care planning book is better than ever and will help you learn to think like a nurse!NEW! Seven additional care plans cover: Impaired Skin IntegrityInfectionUnderweightOverflow Incontinence of UrineEating DisordersBrain TumorPancreatic CancerNEW! Fully updated coverage includes the latest therapeutic interventions and rationalesNEW! Full-color format makes this text more user-friendly and accessibleUPDATED! Using Nursing Care Plans to Individualize and Improve Care chapter features more illustrations to help you understand the components of a care plan, as well as how to prioritize those which are most appropriate for your patientsUPDATED! Content reflects the most current evidence-based practice and national and international clinical practice guidelinesCare plans for 77 “clinical problems” (formerly “nursing diagnoses”) use a conceptual model organization and include the most common/important patient problems, providing the building blocks for creating your own individualized care plansCare plans for 155 disorders encompass virtually every common medical-surgical condition, organized by body systemPrioritized care planning guidance internally organizes care plans f
