Care plans + finding Nsg articles: 2 really good websites everyone should know about!

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http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/MERLIN/Gulanick/Constructor/#New

This website is highly recommended by all my friends if you have problems writing care plans. It is actually a care plan generator, all you do is pick what applies to your patient and out pops a complete care plan. I would like to stress DONT RELY to heavily on this website because in my own personal exp. you may have to write a care plan whenever and wherever you instructor see's fit. Make sure you know how to become a generator yourself before using this. :)

http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/index.asp#journals

If you need a nursing journal article, heres your place. It cost money for most of the articles but some are free. In my exp using it I was always able to find a free article for just about any topic I needed. Make sure if it says it cost money for a article to click on it and scroll down, because sometimes it only cost money if you print the article. Great for Nursing research papers. :)

Thanks so much for all this great info. I start nursing school on Feb. 21st, and I am so nervous! :uhoh3:

Thanks again. :clown: :roll

Specializes in ortho.

Thanks so much for the websites....they will come in handy!

Thank you so much! Your post saved my life . I use the Elsevierhealth site for my care plans and my computer crashed and I have been looking for the site for 3 hours! (didn't remember the link off the top of my head) Now I can start my careplan. Thanks again!

Specializes in Ophthalmology, Dermatology.

Thank-you for the great website!!!

Specializes in Pediatris & PICU.

All I get on that site is a way to purchase the Ackley book. Any ideas why I'm not able to get the free resource? Thanks!

Melissa

Just a piece of advice on care plans for those of you just starting to do these. Always think of INDEPENDENT NURSING INTERVENTIONS before the dependent ones. The dependent ones are the most obvious (i.e. administering meds, IV's, etc as ordered), and therefore the easiest ones to put on a care plan. HOWEVER, I understand that on boards, they really stress the INDEPENDENT nursing interventions. Just a bit of advice from one struggling student to another. . .

I agree with this. I didn't have an online constructor to do my careplans when I was in school, and I had to do 3 per night for 3 pts. Hours and Hours of work a day. When you have to come up with your own interventions you really learn how to care for the pt like it's second nature after you've done it for a while. I think if I woulda used the constructor ones I might not have really grasped why I was doing the interventions I was putting down. Maybe some of the online ones could be used with some that you have to come up with on your own. JMHO. Not knocking these sights at all. Bookmarked them myself for use on kids I take care of just to see if it comes up with stuff I haven't thought of yet. Plus, I'll be starting RN school soon (I hope) and I'm sure it will come in quite handy, so Thanks for the site.

Thanks for the great websites.

Just a note about my previous experience, which made me sad and made me think to ask for advice from all of you...

I used to work at a Public Hospital in Brazil, now I've been living abroad, but not working as a nurse at this present moment.

I was responsible to coordinate a floor (general clinic) with 6 wards and 6 patients each one (total: 36 patients and 3 nurse-assistants). Besides I had to do all nurses procedures and whatever could be necessary as you can imagine: giving showers, inserting catheters, helping medical procedures, etc).

Being a public hospital in a third world country, maybe you don't imagine how it works: sometimes, it was like a war!

It was only me and 3 assistants (practical nurses?) to take care of this whole floor. The only problem was that I had all the time critical patients in the same wards of regular or low complexity ones. Besides my assistants were really great people and excenlent professionals, it was very difficult.

As you can see, I'm not trying to find an excuse, but I never could do a plan care for all the 36 patients and I feel very bad about it. I was focused on taking care of them and do my best while I was there...

I worked so hard during all my 12 hours shifts and could not do anything more. The only time I was able to seat was during the lunch time, when I usually had 30 minutes just to grab my food and eat. And I knew that everytime I went home, they wouldn't be treatened the same way... :crying2:

At the beginning, I did do plan cares, but all other nurses were laughing about me, saying that was real life, not university anymore. They told me I should wake up!

I didn't stop doing whatever I thought was right, but even the charge nurse who should be supporting me, didn't care about it. I was very frustrated about that, but nothing made me happier than see when any patient was recovered and discharged. Lots of times, my husband was the one supporting me and telling that I should not give up, because if I did that and all the others good nurses too, what would happen to those who needed us?

Anyway, I don't know if at developed countries it happens, I'd like to know.

And if you can give me some advices, more websites, tips about good books to start to improve my care plans and understand how it really works, I would be glad to hearing from you.

Sorry for teeling this sad story before my question, but I needed to do it and check if it happened only with me... If the location for this post is not correct, feel free to move it.

My best regards to you all...:rolleyes:

Specializes in med surg, icu.

In case anyone was interested (for a&p review), a site with cadaver dissection instruction videos:

http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/coursepages/M1/anatomy/html/courseinfo/video_index.html

Another website that I have found usefull in www.internurse.com

Good site for Nursing info as practiced in United Kingdom. Karen

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
Another website that I have found usefull in www.internurse.com.uk

The link doesn't work.

Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.

FWIW, every article I looked for in nursingcenter needed to be purchased.

That's not very useful to us as students at all.

Thanks for websites, need all the help I can get.

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