Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales, 15th Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780803676442 ISBN-10: 0803676441 Copyright: 2019 Edition: 15th Author: Doenges, Marilynn E., Moorhouse, Mary Frances, Murr, Alice C., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 87 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Mary Nasta,  MSN, RN-BC, OCN  (Monmouth University School of Nursing and Health Studies) Description This pocket guide will help students and nurses across all healthcare settings identify nursing diagnoses, priority-based nursing interventions, and associated rationales. It is a valuable resource for nursing students learning to write care plans. The diagnoses contained in this guide, are consistent with the suggested NANDA-I list. The previous edition was published in 2016. Purpose The purpose is to provide a comprehensive reference that will assist nurses, nursing students, or research nurses in identifying priority-based interventions associated with specific nursing diagnoses as proposed by NANDA International. This guide is meant to facilitate and promote the evaluation and documentation of patient care through use of a standardized language (i.e. ICD or SNOMED). This allows for uniformity in computer coding and reimbursement across all healthcare settings and seamless continuity of client care among multiple healthcare providers. This is a comprehensive guide to nursing diagnoses, priority interventions with associated rationales, desired outcomes, evaluation criteria, and documentation using the nursing process as its foundational underpinning. Audience Nurses in all clinical practice and research settings will find this guide helpful as it contains 460 disorders/health conditions listed alphabetically and coded by specialty, and it identifies nursing priorities and interventions across each specialty area. It also will aid nursing students in enhancing their care plan writing skills through their use of the nursing process. Features This guide lists nursing diagnoses alphabetically and is organized according to nursing focus. The layout lends itself to promoting a comprehensive understanding of each nursing diagnosis through section designations within each diagnosis that include defining characteristics (objective and subjective), desired outcomes, priority-based actions/interventions, and documentation focus. The key located across the bottom of each page delineates specific nurse practice areas, diagnostic tests, collaboration needs, medications, and cultural considerations within each nursing priority. Sample nursing intervention classifications and nursing outcomes classifications (NIC/NOC) are also included for each diagnosis. Comprehensive assessment tool and care plans in the appendixes of this guide are organized according to nursing focus. Assessment This quick reference guide contains sample assessment tools, care plans, and concept mapping information essentials for nurses and nursing students. While there are other quick reference resources available on nursing diagnoses, none provide the detail necessary to promote a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of nursing diagnoses, priority-based care, and their associated rationales in one handy reference. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the product's objectives met? 10 1-5 Does the website help achieve the purpose? 5 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this directed to an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 3 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 4 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 Rate the added value from the online version. 4 1-5 Is the online version easy to access? 5 1-5 Rate the ease of navigation/search. 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic quality of images on the online version. 4 1-5 Rate the value of added audiovisual features online. 4 1-5 Is there sufficient use of hypertext links? 1 1-5 Are there hyperlinks from references to journal articles? 1 1-5 Is there appropriate use of features like bookmarking, printing/exporting? 3 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.