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Concept Mapping : A Critical-thinking Approach to Care Planning, Fourth Edition
Looking for an easier path to care planning? Create a map! Concept mapping is a clear, visual, and systematic model for gathering and categorizing relevant assessment data, identifying patient problems, and developing patient goals, interventions, and outcomes for each nursing diagnosis. A concept map is your guide to nursing care in any clinical setting. Contents: 1. Twas the night before clinical 2. Gathering clinical data: the framework for concept care mapping 3. Concept care maps: grouping clinical data in a meaningful manner 4. Nursing strategies to attain outcomes: so many problems, so little time 5. Nursing implementation: using concept care maps as nursing care plans at the health-care agency 6. Mapping psychosocial and cultural problems 7. Concept care maps as the basis of documentation and phone conversations with physicians 8. After the clinical day is over: patient evaluations, self-evaluations, and grading the final concept care map Appendix. Sample case scenarios