F.A. Davis Company

Organized by Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns, this unique care plan text is packed with outstanding features—it’s the resource students will turn to again and again. They’ll find everything they need to create and implement great care plans across the lifespan.

Your resource for nursing diagnosis, care planning and concept maps, concept map generator, care plan template, interactive and printable assessment tool, and more!

Davis’s Care Planning & Nursing Diagnosis Resource Center

• Applies holistic, clinical decision making to care planning across the lifespan.
• Offers 125 care plans that cover the six areas of clinical practice—adult, children’s, women’s, geriatric, mental, and community health.
• Focuses on nursing interventions and outcomes rather than etiologic factors.
• Pattern Assessment questions help you to select the right diagnosis.
• Have you selected the correct diagnosis? boxes let students double check their diagnosis selection.

1. Introduction
2. Health Perception-Health Management Pattern
3. Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
4. Elimination Pattern
5. Activity-Exercise Pattern
6. Sleep-Rest Pattern
7. Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
8. Self-Perception and Self-Concept Pattern
9. Role-Relationship Pattern
10. Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern
11. Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
12. Value-Belief Pattern

• 15 new nursing care plans and thorough updating of all care plans.
• A new section on concept mapping.
• More references to support evidence-based practice.
• Updated with the latest NANDA, NIC, and NOC diagnoses.