Introducing a plan for success with the only nursing care planning reference book for all core clinical areas! Swearingen's ALL-IN-ONE NURSING CARE PLANNING RESOURCE, 5TH EDITION, features over 100 care plans including medical-surgical, maternity/OB, pediatrics, and psychiatric?mental health to help you care for patients in any setting. This new edition is the first in the market to include a unique, interprofessional, "patient problem" focus that teaches students how to speak to patients in conversational terms rather than in nursing-specific language. New non–medical-surgical care plans and updated content throughout reflect the latest evidence-based treatment guidelines for national and international clinical practice. Plus, with its clear approach, easy-to-use format, and straightforward rationales, you can use this one book throughout their entire nursing curriculum! * BOLDED AND HIGHLIGHTED _SAFETY ICONS_ corresponds to the _safety competency_ of the _Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)_ initiative for easier recognition. * CARE PLANS FOR ALL FOUR MAJOR CLINICAL AREAS include _medical-surgical, OB/maternity, pediatric_, and _psychiatric-mental health_ nursing care plans.  * A CONSISTENT FORMAT FOR EACH CARE PLAN enables you to perform faster searches, with headings for _Overview/Pathophysiology, Health Care Setting, Assessment, Diagnostic Tests, Patient Problems, Desired Outcomes, Interventions with Rationales, _and_ Patient-Family Teaching and Discharge Planning._ * PRIORITIZED patient problems are listed in order of importance and physiologic patient needs. * DETAILED RATIONALES FOR EACH NURSING INTERVENTION help you apply concepts to specific patient situations in clinical practice. * FULL-COLOR DESIGN makes the book more user friendly and includes color-coded tabs and improved cross-referencing and navigation aids for faster information retrieval. * NEW! UNIQUE! INTERPROFESSIONAL "PATIENT PROBLEMS" FOCUS familiarizes you with how to speak to patients and other medical colleagues in the consistent interprofessional language of "patient problems," rather than the nursing-specific language of nursing diagnosis. * NEW! CARE PLANS helps you to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, or intersex patient. * NEW! UPDATED CONTENT THROUGHOUT reflects the latest evidence-based treatment guidelines and national and international clinical practice guidelines.