Concept Mapping: A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning

This title provides students with a clear, visual and systematic way of thinking about, identifying, and devising a plan of care.Redesigned concept maps make essential relationships easy to understand. This title features expanded focus on the importance of nurse-patient communications to ensure accurate data collection. Six new forms offer more structured guidance...Weekly Clinical Self-Evaluation/Faculty Evaluation, Concept Map Template for Pre-clinical and Postconference Initial, Pain Assessment Tool, Glasgow Coma Scale Hospital, Database, Patient Profile Form and Concept Map Care Plan Evaluation. Concept Map Generator is available on DavisPlus for instructors and students.Create, print, and email individualized concept maps. This title provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care. It works with or without nursing diagnoses. It emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care. It teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly. It establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, assessment data, and treatments.