Critical thinking to achieve positive health outcomes : nursing case studies and analyses / edited by Margaret Lunney, T. Heather Herdman.

Previous ed.: published as Critical thinking & nursing diagnosis. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: Strategies for Critical Thinking to Achieve Positive Health Outcomes:- 1. Use of Critical Thinking to Achieve Positive Health Outcomes--2. Diagnostic Reasoning and Accuracy of Diagnosing Human Responses-- 3. Guiding Principles for Use of Nursing Diagnoses and NANDA-I, NOC and NIC-- 4. Application of the Guiding Principles and Directions for Use of NANDA-I, NOC and NIC-- PART II: Case Study Application of Strategies:- 5. Case studies with a primary focus on Problem Diagnoses and Associated Outcomes and Interventions-- 5.1 Woman Admitted for Diagnostic Testing of a Lung Nodule-- 5.2 Adaptation to the Pain of a Fractured Hip-- 5.3 Acute Presentation of an Elderly Woman with Cancer-- 5.4 Substance Abuse Crisis Associated with Stress Overload-- 5.5 Communication of Perceptions and Mechanical Ventilation-- 5.6 Preparing for Orthopedic Surgery with Other Health Problems-- 5.7 Helping a School Child with Asthma-- 5.8 Birth of a 25 week Neonate--5.9 Man with Severe Burns--5.10 Dilemma of Addressing Overlapping Diagnoses in Acute Care--5.11 The Hypermetabolic State--5.12 Low Accuracy Nursing and Medical Diagnoses Can Lead to Harm--5.13 Cardiac Disease and Self Management--5.14 Woman with a Neurological Problem--5.15 Orthopedic Care of a Woman with Total Hip Replacement--5.16 Using Orem\'s Theory for Care of a Woman with Terminal Cancer--5.17 Cardiac Disease and Anticoagulation Therapy--5.18 Diabetes Self Management when Other Family Members Need Care--5.19 Impetus of Diabetic Crisis to Improve Self Management--5.20 Self Management of Diabetes and Stress--5.21 Telephone Nurse Advice and an AIDS-Related Crisis--5.22 Woman who Experienced a Significant Childhood Loss--5.23 Young Woman Whose Mother is Dying--5.24 Rehabilitation of a Male with a Young Family after a Stroke--5.25 Elderly Woman Who Thinks She Should Not be Discharged--5.26 Elderly Man Who is Angry--5.27 Homeless Woman\'s Reaction to Loss--5.28 Family Stress and Alzheimer\'s Disease--5.29 Family Struggling with Ostomy Care at Home--5.30 Nonparticipation in Rehabilitation with a Colostomy--5.31 Man with Urinary Incontinence After Prostrate Surgery--5.32 Palliative Care and the Outcome of Comfort--5.33 Hospice and Palliative Care--5.34 Two-Year-Old Bess\'s Response to Parents\' Divorce-- 5.35 Challenges in Helping a Person to Accept Long Term Care-- 5.36 Woman with a History of Being Battered--5.37 Woman in Labor with Complications--5.38 Breast feeding and Postpartum Nursing--5.39 Business Woman with Stress in her Personal Life-- 6. Case studies with a Primary Focus on Risk Diagnoses and Associated Outcomes and Interventions:- 6.1 Role of Nurses in the Protection of Children--6.2 Responses to Mechanical Ventilation-- 6.3 Family Caregiving at End of Life-- 6.4 Man with Renal Calculi and Stent Placement-- 6.5 Helping a Man with Low Literacy-- 6.6 Self Management of Chronic Illness and Financial Status-- 6.7 Case Management for Homeless Man with Severe Pancreatitis-- 6.8 Psychiatric Care of an Adult Male with Poor Impulse Control-- 6.9 Response to a diagnosis of chronic illness.--7. Case studies with a Primary Focus on Health Promotion Diagnoses and Associated Outcomes and Nursing Interventions:- 7.1 Support of a Mexican-American Woman in Postpartum Care-- 7.2 Parenting of a child with Spina Bifida-- 7.3 Woman Who Experienced Early Childhood Trauma-- 7.4 Living with Multiple Health Problems--7.5 Response to Limitations Associated with Cardiac Disease-- 7.6 Living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-- 8. Case Studies with a Primary Focus on Strength Diagnoses and Associated Outcomes and Nursing Interventions-- 8.1 Mother Breastfeeding Her Newborn-- 8.2 Nursing Communication for Continuity of Care.

Careful selection of interventions is key in producing desired treatment effects and achieving positive health outcomes. Standardized nursing terminologies provide a means of collecting nursing data that are systematically analysed within and across healthcare organizations and provide essential data for clincal audit.