Get nursing care plans right! Ackley’s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 12th Edition helps practicing nurses and nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan.

Sect. I: Nursing process, clinical reasoning, nursing diagnosis, and evidence-based nursing -- Sect. II: Guide to nursing diagnosis -- Sect. III: Guide to planning care.