Nursing diagnosis : application to clinical practice / [edited by] Lynda Juall Carpenito

includes index

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Section 1: The focus of nursing care. Nursing diagnoses: issues and controversies -- Development of nursing diagnosis -- Types and components of nursing diagnoses -- Nursing diagnosis: what it is, what it is not -- Planning care with nursing diagnosis -- Eleven steps to putting it all together --

Section 2: Manual of nursing diagnoses. Individual nursing diagnoses -- Family/home nursing diagnoses -- Community nursing diagnoses -- Health promotion/wellness nursing diagnoses --

Section 3: Manual of collaborative problems -- Updated NANDA diagnoses.