Nurse's Pocket Guide

Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales, 16th Edition, serves as a clinical handbook to assist students and nurses in selecting diagnoses and planning patient care.

The handbook arranges NANDA-I 2021-2023 diagnoses alphabetically to address more than 400 diseases and disorders. Clinical entries outline defining characteristics separated into subjective and objective categories, paired with action steps organized by priority and supported by selected rationales.

A dedicated documentation section focuses on the remaining steps of the nursing process, highlighting the necessity of recording each step. In addition, an index connects hundreds of medical conditions to their prioritized associated nursing diagnoses for clinical reference.