Nursing Diagnoses Handbook is a complete and convenient reference to help practicing nurses and nursing students make a nursing diagnosis and write a plan of care with ease and confidence. This extensively revised and updated edition presents the most up-to-date information on all NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses; explains the relationship between nursing diagnoses and care planning; expands and updates the list of more than 1000 client symptoms; medical, nursing, and psychiatric diagnoses; diagnostic procedures; surgical interventions; and clinical states correlated to nursing diagnoses; provides plans of care for every NANDA-approved nursing diagnosis, plus two additional, useful nursing diagnoses; lists suggested Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) interventions for each nursing diagnosis; supplies research-based scientific rationales for nursing interventions; includes specific geriatric interventions in appropriate plans of care; provides home care interventions as necessary for plans of care; includes client/family teaching interventions in each plan of care; includes an appendix listing every NIC intervention; provides quick access to information with A-to-Z organization of the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections; and lists all NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses on a durable quick reference card affixed to the inside back cover.