Confidently plan individualized care for clients in a variety of clinical settings! Practical and comprehensive, Nursing Care Planning Guides, 9th Edition, helps you create care plans for clients across acute care, extended care, and home settings, with a focus on prioritization, delegation, and clinical reasoning. This full-color edition is organized around patient problems and offers new care plans, additional diagnostic tests, and a discharge-planning care plan to support efficient clinical decision-making. 30+ patient problem care plans provide detailed interventions with rationales and documentation guidelines for the most common patient problems 60+ comprehensive care plans cover the most common disorders in acute care, extended care, and home care settings Practical care plan format with a focus on prioritized nursing interventions, interventions that can be delegated, and documentation criteria, as well as differentiation between independent and collaborative nursing actions, provides a comprehensive and practical care planning tool Body system organization makes content easy to locate Coverage of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging helps you understand the unique considerations of caring for this growing population group Helpful care planning tools on the companion Evolve website include animations, nursing skills videos, additional care plans, and a care plan template NEW! Full-color format makes this edition more user-friendly and accessible than ever NEW! Additional in-depth care plans help foster clinical reasoning and reflect the latest evidence-based treatment protocols and national and international guidelines NEW! Revised care plans are organized around patient problems NEW! Diagnostic tests have been added where relevant NEW! Discharge-planning care plan supports efficient clinical decision-making.