About this book
Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales 15th Edition PDF by Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, and Alice C. Murr is offered here as a PDF eBook. The fifteenth edition is a practical nursing care-planning handbook that helps learners translate assessment findings into nursing diagnoses, intervention priorities and expected outcomes. Organized for rapid clinical use, it provides defining characteristics, related and risk factors, suggested interventions, rationales and evaluation guidance using the NANDA-I 2018–2020 framework. The concise structure is particularly useful during clinical placements, when students need to build care plans efficiently while still understanding the reasoning behind each nursing action. It also supports review of diagnosis terminology and documentation principles in foundational nursing courses.
Designed for nursing students and nurses reviewing care plans, this edition provides a structured resource for understanding how identified nursing needs connect with interventions and expected outcomes.
This listing is for the 15th edition of Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales. Check the title, edition, authors/editors, and other product information before ordering if you need the book for a particular course, syllabus, examination, or professional reference.
About the Fifteenth Edition
Nurse’s Pocket Guide provides a diagnosis-centered way to organize nursing care. The fifteenth edition follows the NANDA-I 2018–2020 terminology and brings diagnostic information together with outcomes, nursing actions, and rationales. Its scope includes activity and rest, circulation, coping, elimination, nutrition, safety, and other nursing concerns. Alphabetical entries support consultation of a particular diagnosis, while the diagnostic divisions offer another way to consider a person’s needs. The format is relevant to care-plan development because it connects the statement of a nursing problem with the information needed to support and address it. This listing identifies the older fifteenth edition for readers whose course requires that framework.
Nursing Needs and Planning Priorities
The 15th edition covers the following areas:
- Activity and rest: Consider fatigue, sleep difficulties, activity intolerance, and mobility.
- Circulation: Review cardiac output, bleeding risk, and tissue perfusion concerns.
- Coping and self-concept: Explore anxiety, grieving, coping, and related responses.
- Diagnostic evidence: Examine characteristics and factors supporting a nursing diagnosis.
- Intervention priorities: Connect proposed nursing actions with the identified need.
- Outcomes and evaluation: Use expected outcomes to consider the response to care.
Reviewing the Logic of a Care Plan
This reference is useful when a student needs to show how a nursing problem was identified and why particular actions belong in the plan. Its diagnosis-based format allows the supporting findings, goals, and interventions to be considered together. The diagnostic divisions can also help readers think across several needs instead of choosing an entry solely because it resembles a medical diagnosis. In teaching, this supports discussion of the distinction between a disease label and the person’s nursing needs. The fifteenth edition is particularly relevant where a reading list specifies its terminology, and it can serve as a reference for examining plans prepared within that classification period.
Who uses this book
- Nursing Students
- Students Writing Care Plans
- Clinical Nursing Instructors
- Registered Nurses Reviewing Care-Planning Foundations
- Students Using NANDA-I 2018–2020 Terminology
- Practical Nursing Students
- Students Preparing Clinical Documentation
- Nursing Tutors and Preceptors
Also suitable for other nursing learners who need a concise framework for diagnosis selection, intervention prioritization and outcome evaluation.
Key Topics Covered
- NANDA-I 2018–2020
- Activity intolerance
- Fatigue
- Sleep disturbance
- Impaired mobility
- Decreased cardiac output
- Bleeding risk
- Tissue perfusion
- Anxiety
- Coping
- Grieving
- Diagnostic characteristics
- Related and risk factors
- Prioritized interventions
- Outcome evaluation
PDF Edition Features
- Searchable reading: Quickly locate names, concepts, conditions, terminology, and other material with a compatible PDF reader.
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- Edition identification: Check the edition and product information before ordering to ensure it matches your requirements.
- Instant access: After successful payment, the download link is available through your order and sent to the email address used at checkout.
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