This resource contains 165 nursing care plans for medical or surgical clients in acute care, community, and home care settings. Doenges, a retired specialist in adult psychiatric/mental health nursing who teaches at Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, et al. first provide background information on care plans and the nursing profession, then care plans that include information from multiple disciplines, nursing diagnosis labels, actions and interventions, and rationales. This edition contains an assessment tool with a nursing rather than a medical focus. The CD-ROM contains all medical/surgical care plans from the book, as well as 50 maternity and 36 psychiatric/mental health plans, pediatric considerations, 500 diseases and disorders and their nursing diagnoses, an assessment tool, and a care plan template. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)