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Nursing Care Planning Guides

Prioritization, Delegation, and Clinical Reasoning

  • 9th Edition - September 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Nancy Haugen, Sandra J. Galura
  • Language: English

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Confidently plan individualized care for clients in a variety of clinical settings! Practical and comprehensive, Nursing Care Planning Guides, 9th Edition, helps you create care plans for clients across acute care, extended care, and home settings, with a focus on prioritization, delegation, and clinical reasoning. This full-color edition is organized around patient problems and offers new care plans, additional diagnostic tests, and a discharge-planning care plan to support efficient clinical decision-making.

Key features

  • 30+ patient problem care plans provide detailed interventions with rationales and documentation guidelines for the most common patient problems
  • 60+ comprehensive care plans cover the most common disorders in acute care, extended care, and home care settings
  • Practical care plan format with a focus on prioritized nursing interventions, interventions that can be delegated, and documentation criteria, as well as differentiation between independent and collaborative nursing actions, provides a comprehensive and practical care planning tool
  • Body system organization makes content easy to locate
  • Coverage of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging helps you understand the unique considerations of caring for this growing population group
  • Helpful care planning tools on the companion Evolve website include animations, nursing skills videos, additional care plans, and a care plan template

Readership

Undergraduate nursing students in BSN and ADN programs

Table of contents

1. Prioritization, Delegation, and Critical Thinking in Client Management

2. Nurse-Sensitive Indications

3. Selected Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, Rationales, and Documentation

4. Nursing Care of the Client Having Surgery

5. The Client with Alterations in Respiratory Function

6. The Client with Alternations in Cardiovascular Function

7. The Client with Alterations in Neurological Function

8. The Client with Alternations in Hematologic and Immune Function

9. The Client with Alterations in Metabolic Function

10. The Client with Alterations In the Gastrointestinal Tract

11. Nursing Care of the Client with Disturbances of the Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas

12. The Client with Alterations in the Kidney and Urinary Tract

13. The Client with Alterations in Musculoskeletal Function

14. The Client with Alterations in the Breast and Reproductive Systems

15. The Client Receiving Treatment for Neoplastic Disorders

16. Nursing Care of the Elderly Client

17. End-of-Life Nursing Care

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 2, 2026
  • Language: English

About the authors

NH

Nancy Haugen

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Kathleen Strunk Endowed Chair, Department of Nursing Chair, USA

SG

Sandra J. Galura

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Director, Master’s in Nursing Leadership and Management Program, Department of Nursing Systems, Academic Health Sciences Center, University of Central Florida College of Nursing, USA