Download or read book Geriatric Care Plans written by Diane Kaschak Newman and published by Springhouse Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample care plans, titled by medical diagnosis and organized primarily by body system, use the nursing process throughout. Each plan includes NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses with emphasis on patient goals, and provides medical diagnoses, etiology, assessment criteria, physical examination criteria, diagnostic studies and potential complications, nursing diagnoses with goals, signs and symptoms, interventions with rationales, outcome criteria, and nursing actions for various patient-care settings. Additional care plans cover chronic pain, cancer, and more.