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Concept mapping is a clear, visual, and systematic model for gathering and categorizing relevant assessment data, identifying patient problems, and developing patient goals, interventions, and outcomes for each nursing diagnosis. A concept map is your guide to nursing care in any clinical setting.
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1. ‘Twas the Night Before Clinical...
2. Gathering Clinical Data: The Framework for Concept Care Mapping
3. Concept Care Maps: Grouping Clinical Data in A Meaningful Manner
4. Nursing Strategies to Attain Outcomes: So Many Problems, So Little Time
5. Nursing Implementation: Using Concept Care Maps as Nursing Care Plans at the HealthCare Agency
6. Mapping Psychosocial and Cultural Problems
7. Concept Care Maps as the Basis of Documentation and Phone Conversations with Physicians
8. After the Clinical Day is Over: Patient Evaluations, Self-Evaluations, and Grading the Final Concept Care Map
Appendix A: Sample Case Studies
Appendix B Complete Concept Care Map Examples
Appendix C: Definitions for NANDA-I Nursing Diagnosis Used in this Text
Index
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