This innovative resource teaches you the critical thinking and assessment skills you need to build customized care plans based on each patient’s unique needs. Its step-bystep approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidencebased rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.