Sparks and Taylor’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, tenth edition, offers clearly written, authoritative care plans to help meet patients’ health care needs throughout the life span. This reference manual is a care planning and nursing diagnosis guide organized by life-cycle, and thoroughly integrates the nursing process, 2015-2017 NANDA-I diagnoses and standards, the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) labels.