This newly revised and updated Second Edition of 'Nursing Care Plans' is a practical guide to care planning which is relevant to any system of health care and nurse education and focuses on how nurses can plan appropriate care for each patient's needs. In this revision the authors have re-emphasised that nursing care plans are a means of putting the nursing process into action and have incorporated the experience gained from improved skills, understanding and knowledge of care planning. The changes in this edition are many. Section I is completely updated; Section II features the incorporation of a fifth stage - nursing diagnoses - in the stages of the nursing process, confirming the authors' belief that before appropriate care can be planned nursing problems must be accurately and sensitively diagnosed; Section III is completely new and recognises the separate yet interrelated roles that nurse practitioners, managers and educators have to play in care planning; The reading guide and bibliography in Section IV have been thoroughly updated.