From Back Cover: Nursing process and critical thinking uses concrete examples and hands-on exercises to help you understand and apply this fundamental decision-making process. Numerous case studies help develop effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Updated! NANDA, NIC, and NOC terminology. New! Online student resources website with additional content, critical thinking questions and answers, NCLEX questions and answers (nursing.pearsonhighered.com). New! Take Away Points summarize key points. New! What do you know questions help students stop and think about what they have read and learned. New! Think about it questions provide an opportunity to reflect on book content and participate in class discussions.

1. Overview of nursing process -- Nursing -- Phases of nursing process -- Qualities a nurse needs -- Nursing process and wellness -- Nursing process and community health -- Ethical and cultural considerations -- 2. Critical thinking -- Critical thinking attitudes -- Independent thinking -- Intellectual humility -- Intellectual courage -- Intellectual empathy -- Intellectual integrity -- Intellectual perseverance -- Intellectual curiosity -- Faith in reason -- Fair-mindedness -- Interest in exploring thoughts and feelings -- Critical thinking skills -- Using language -- Perceiving -- Believing and knowing -- Clarifying -- Comparing -- Judging and evaluating -- Reasoning -- Standards of reasoning -- Critical thinking and nursing process -- Critical thinking and nursing ethics -- 3. Assessment -- Learning outcomes -- Assessment : the first phase of the nursing process -- Collecting data -- Validating data -- Organizing data -- Recording data -- Special-purpose assessments -- Home care and functional assessment -- Cultural assessment -- Spiritual assessment -- Wellness assessment -- Family assessment -- Community assessment -- Ethical and legal considerations -- Honesty -- Confidentiality -- Malpractice suits -- 4. Diagnostic reasoning -- Learning outcomes -- Diagnosis : second phase of nursing process -- Human responses -- Diagnosing health status -- Identifying patient strengths -- Recognizing nursing diagnoses -- Wellness diagnoses -- Recognizing collaborative problems -- Recognizing medical diagnoses -- Computer-assisted diagnosis -- Using nursing diagnoses with critical pathways -- Critical thinking and diagnosis -- 5. Diagnostic language -- Learning outcomes -- Standardized nursing languages -- Classification systems -- Uniform nursing language -- Existing nursing taxonomies -- NANDA International -- Components of NANDA-I diagnosis -- Format for writing diagnostic statements -- Actual nursing diagnoses -- Potential (risk) nursing diagnoses -- Possible nursing diagnoses -- Wellness diagnoses (format) -- Collaborative problems -- Relationship of nursing diagnoses to outcomes and nursing orders -- Thinking critically about the content of diagnostic statements -- Wellness diagnoses -- Spiritual diagnoses -- Family and home health diagnoses -- Community health diagnoses -- Issues associated with NANDA-I classification -- Holistic perspective -- Ethical considerations -- Cultural considerations -- Recording nursing diagnoses -- Prioritizing diagnoses -- Preservation of life -- Maslow' hierarchy -- Patient preference. 6. Planning : overview & outcomes -- Overview of planning : third and fourth phases of nursing process -- Patient plans of care -- Planning outcomes -- Writing outcome statements -- The nursing outcomes classification -- Family and home health outcomes -- Community outcomes -- Goals/outcomes for wellness diagnoses -- Patient teaching goals/outcomes -- Critical thinking : reflecting on planning -- Ethical considerations in planning -- Legal issues in planning -- Spiritual planning and outcomes -- Cultural considerations in planning -- 7. Planning : interventions -- Nursing interventions -- Theory-based planning -- Nursing interventions and problem status -- How to generate and select nursing activities and interventions -- Electronic care planning -- Writing nursing orders -- Standardized language for nursing interventions -- The Nursing Interventions Classification System -- Community nursing interventions -- Family and home health interventions -- Formal teaching plans -- Wellness interventions -- Spiritual interventions -- Thinking critically about planning -- Interventions -- Ethical factors -- Cultural factors -- 8. Implementation -- Healthcare delivery systems -- Preparing the nurse -- Preparing the patient -- Preparing supplies and equipment -- Action : doing or delegating -- Teaching self-care -- Delegation and supervision -- Thinking critically about implementation -- Recording -- Client records -- Documenting nursing process -- Documentation methods -- Narrative, chronological charting -- SOAP charting -- PIE charting -- PART charting -- Focus charting -- Charting by exception -- IPOCs : charting integrated into the plan of care -- Electronic documentation -- Documenting with standardized language -- Guidelines for charting -- Home healthcare documentation -- Long-term care documentation -- Oral reports -- Standardized formats -- SBAR -- PACE -- Ethical issues in implementation -- Respect for dignity -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Legal considerations -- Falls -- Restraints -- Questioning medical orders -- Patient behaviors -- Cultural care -- Spiritual care -- 9. Evaluation -- General characteristics of evaluation -- Evaluation in nursing process -- Evaluating patient progress -- Evaluating and revising the plan of care -- Reflecting critically about evaluation -- Quality assurance and quality improvement -- Electronic health records and standardized nursing languages -- 10. Creating a care plan -- Comprehensive plans of care -- Standardized approaches to care planning -- Critical pathways -- Unit standards of care -- Model (standardized) care plans -- Protocols -- Policies and procedures -- Electronic care plans and standardized language -- Care-planning guide -- Creating a comprehensive plan of care -- How to mind map a plan of care -- Wellness in the acute-care setting -- Ethical considerations.