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Nurse’s Pocket Guide : Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales
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The American Nurses Association (ANA) Social Policy State-
ment of 1980 was the first to define nursing as the diagnosis and
treatment of human responses to actual and potential health
problems. This definition, when combined with the ANA Stan-
dards of Practice, has provided impetus and support for the use
of nursing diagnosis. Defining nursing and its effect on client
care supports the growing awareness that nursing care is a key
factor in client survival and in the maintenance, rehabilitative,
and preventive aspects of healthcare. Changes and new develop-
ments in healthcare delivery in the last decade have given rise to
the need for a common framework of communication to ensure
continuity of care for the client moving between multiple
healthcare settings and providers. Evaluation and documenta-
tion of care are important parts of this process.
This book is designed to aid the practitioner and student
nurse in identifying interventions commonly associated with
specific nursing diagnoses as proposed by NANDA Inter-
national/NANDA-I (formerly the North American Nursing
Diagnosis Association). These interventions are the activities
needed to implement and document care provided to the indi-
vidual client and can be used in varied settings from acute to
community/home care.
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