• Linkages between the three standardized languages recognized by the American Nurses Organization: NANDA-I, Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) help you select the most effective care plans for patients and allow institutions to track and quantify nursing care.
• Tabular format allows you to quickly retrieve information.
• Case studies with nursing care plans demonstrate the practical, real-life application of linkages.
• Definitions of all NANDA-I, NOC, and NIC labels provide comprehensive coverage of the standardized languages.
  
• Serves as an excellent companion to Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), 4th Edition and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 5th Edition.

• NEW! Added linkages to common medical diagnoses help support clinical reasoning, improve quality, and build the evidence needed to enhance nursing care.

- Includes 15-20 high-frequency, high-cost medical diagnoses that are commonly experienced by patients across the life span.

- Examples include Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Total Joint Replacement, and Asthma.

• NEW! Treatment of Intervention content makes information easier for students to locate by listing interventions as Major Interventions and Suggested Interventions.
• Two NEW chapters discuss the use of linkages for clinical reasoning and quality improvement and the use of NNN in computerized information systems.
  
• NEW! Information associated with the risk for nursing diagnosis is contained on a single page for quick and easy reference.