Nursing Concept Care Maps for Providing Safe Patient Care

Master care planning with concept maps

A concept map is an easy-to-construct, visual tool that helps you organize your assessment data, identify patient problems, determine the appropriate nursing diagnoses and interventions, and assess the outcomes.

Nursing Concept Care Maps for Providing Safe Patient Care presents 200 sample care maps covering the diseases and disorders you'll encounter most often in clinical practice. They'll also help you develop the critical-thinking skills you need to plan safe and effective nursing care.

You'll immediately see the relationship between the patient's problem, the underlying condition and your clinical response. You'll also see the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, history and physical assessment data, treatments, medications and laboratory data.