The Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Fourth Edition, helps you prepare your care plans with remarkable efficiency and clinical accuracy. Inside you'll find a versatile life-cycle format, with sections on adult, child, maternal-neonatal, adolescent, and geriatric health; and 320 complete care plans, including care plans for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis. For each nursing diagnosis, you'll find: the NANDA-approved diagnostic label and etiology, assessment criteria and defining characteristics, associated medical diagnosis, expected outcomes, interventions with easy-to-spot rationales in italic type, evaluations for expected outcomes, and documentation guidelines. New care plans for community-based nursing practice - home health, hospice care, school nursing, managed care, community outreach, health promotion, patient teaching with the Internet, and much more; new insights on nursing diagnoses and critical pathways; and fully-revised, expanded appendix relating nursing diagnoses to medical diagnoses.