Mosby's Nursing Concept Map Creator

This unique, easy-to-use program walks you through each step involved in gathering, organizing, and entering patient data into a plan of care. Its flexible design and interactive approach make it a fun and effective way to learn concept mapping techniques while you build "real-life" skills for collecting and evaluating data for patient care! Applicable to all clinical practice areas, including med-surg, pediatrics, critical care, maternity, and psychiatric nursing.* Easy-to-use program walks users through the steps of constructing a concept map, including: * Creating a data sheet with assessment/physical examination findings, treatments, pathophysiology, medications, and more * Entering medical diagnoses * Identifying appropriate nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems * Providing supporting data for each patient problem * Prioritizing key nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems * Determining nursing interventions * Building the concept map and adding! arrows to show relationships * Creating an evaluation summary * Flexible programming allows users to customize their concept maps by moving boxes and adding multidirectional arrows that can point to more than one box to indicate relationships. * Data sheet feature allows users to record key preliminary information such as assessment/physical examination data, pathophysiology, treatments, diagnostic tests/results, and more.