Manual Of Medical Surgical Nursing Care - Interventions And Collaborative Management

provides a quick review of pathophysiology, physical assessment, diagnostic testing, collaborative management, and patient family teaching and discharge planning data. The outcome criteria are specific, positive statements that facilitate evaluation of care. The order of presentation of the information in each health alteration provides a hierarchy of data that enables the nurse to make nursing diagnoses and plan interventions specific to each patient. Nursing diagnoses and interventions are presented for preoperative and postoperative patients, patients on prolonged bed rest, patients with cancer and life disrupting illness, and older adults.