Nursing Care Plans is the most comprehensive nursing care planning book on the market, with 189 care plans covering the most common nursing diagnoses and clinical problems in medical-surgical nursing. Written for both students and practicing nurses, it reflects the most current clinical practice and professional standards in nursing and is presented in an easy-to-use, reader-friendly format. Nursing Care Plans functions as 'two books in one'. The first 'book' is a collection of nursing diagnosis care plans, found in Chapter 2, which provide the building blocks that enable users to create their own customizable care plans tailored to each patient's unique nursing diagnoses. The second 'book', consisting of Chapters 3 through 14, is a library of disease/disorder-focused care plans that serve as models of care planning for the most common medical diagnoses, medical procedures, and psychosocial conditions seen in nursing practice.