CONTENTS // PART 1 Languages and Applications // Chapter 1 Languages and Development of the Linkages, 1 Sue Moorhead and Joanne McCloskey Dochterman // Chapter 2 Use of Linkages for Clinical Reasoning and Quality Improvement, 11 Howard Butcher and Marion Johnson // Chapter 3 Use of NNN in Computerized Information Systems, 24 Meri dean Maas, Cindy Scherb, and Barbara Head // PART II NOC and NIC Linked to NANDA-I Diagnoses // Section 2.1 Introduction to Linkages for Actual and Health Promotion Diagnoses, 35 Case Study 1: NANDA-I Actual Diagnosis, 36 Case Study 2: NANDA-I Health Promotion Diagnosis, 39 // Section 2.2 NOC and NIC Linked to Nursing Diagnoses, 41 // Section 2.3 Introduction to Linkages for Risk for Nursing Diagnoses, 245 Case Study 3: NANDA-I Risk for Diagnosis, 246 // Section 2.4 NOC and NIC Linked to Risk for Nursing Diagnoses, 249 // PART lil NOC and NIC Linked to ___Clinical Conditions___ // Section 3.1 Introduction to Linkages for Clinical Conditions, 295 // Sample of Care Path for a Clinical Condition, 297 // Section 3.2 NOC and NIC Linked to Clinical Conditions, 306 Asthma, 306 // Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), 309 Colon and Rectal Cancer, 314 Depression, 327 Diabetes Mellitus, 331 Heart Failure, 335 Hypertension, 344 Pneumonia, 348 Stroke, 352 // Total Joint Replacement: Hip/Knee, 356 // PART IV Appendixes // Appendix A NOC Outcomes Labels and Definitions, 360 // Appendix ? NIC Interventions Labels and Definitions, 375 // Index, 399 // ix