Provides the tools needed to construct care plans for any patient, in any setting, based on accepted standards of care. Introduces critical thinking early in the curriculum. Works with or without nursing diagnoses. Saves time and improves clinical performance. Emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing patient care. Teaches how to identify patient needs, then organize, prioritize, and implement care quickly. Establishes the relationships between medical and nursing diagnoses, physical assessment data, treatments, medications, laboratory data, and history data. Makes concept mapping easy to understand and implement with… Case studies that let you practice creating a care map. Templates for creating a concept care map. A care map generator online with clear, concise instructions. | Concept Mapping by Pamela Mchugh Schuster, Paperback | Indigo Chapters