Concept Mapping
A Clinical Judgment Approach to Patient Care

Pamela McHugh Schuster (Author)

9780803694736

Paperback / softback, published 17 January 2020

240 pages, 66 illustrations
25.4 x 20.3 x 1.1 cm, 0.51 kg

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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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• Twas the Night Before Clinical
• 2. Gathering Clinical Data: The Framework for Concept 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 Scenarios
• Appendix B: Complete Concept Care Map Examples
• Index
• View the Contributors and Reviewers here.