Pediatric Nursing Care Plans

by Assuma Beevi TM

Nursing care plan using nursing process approach is a unique step to provide individualized professional care to patients. Using nursing process make nurses to plan and provide care for patient's problems and concerns that are a result of the medical diagnoses. This book had attempted the use of North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) though sometimes there is overlap of concepts and all the problems of a sick child cannot be put under nursing diagnosis frame work. Nursing care plan in this book are divided into two parts. The first section provides generic care plans stating common nursing diagnosis and the second section deals with nursing care plan for specifically selected health problems related to a particular system with corresponding medical diagnosis. This book is prepared to give guidelines for students and practicing nurses for writing care plans so that they will be able to provide comprehensive, individualized and holistic family centered care to children. The Assessment part is presented as a data base that is specific to each disease process to provide a base for specific focused assessment.

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