Care Plan Hell

Nursing Students Student Assist

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i've gotten through the first 2 pages of my very first care plan and thought it wasn't so bad. now i'm on pharm and i'm stuck and i have a feeling it is going to get worse when i get to the lab value section and have to explain every lab value the patient has and that i have never even heard of before.

i have spent hours on the drugs, but my problem is that the textbooks and software i was given does not have the information my clinical instructor is mandating we put down so i have to look online and it hasn't exactly been successful. i'm hoping someone here may have a solution that won't break the bank because although the stuff was "given" to me i paid for it through tuition and it costs several hundred dollars for the books and software that all of us get.

here is what i need: drug name, class, physiological action, side effects, interactions, [color=#ee82ee]nursing interventions, specific lab values, and antidote

the pink ones are the ones i have trouble with most although some of the drug guides don't explain the drug interactions either. ideas?

Update: I fixed majority of the problems with my care plans and now only make minor mistakes if that(Usually a wording problem or a goal timeline issue). I took the advice and am now using Saunder's drug guide. Thank you for all the tips.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

you're welcome!

Esme12.... I have no idea what you would do with the cards you just posted (I don't start school for two weeks), but they look EPIC... I just saved them I am sure eventually I will figure out how to use them. YOU ARE THE BEST!

did you buy a lab value book? we were required to buy one and it helped a lot with labs i did not know. we had to explain both abnormal and normal values and it does teach you pathophys better knowing why you are running this lab. i used Drugs.com | Prescription Drug Information, Interactions & Side Effects when the med was not in my medbook. if you have a smartphone download the app epocrates. i LOVE it. my instructors would use it when they didn't know a med and it wasn't in the book. it's free for just the drug book part but you can pay to have the lab values on epocrates also. i never paid so i don't know how awesome the lab results are. i had that recommended to me by an internal medicine doctor when i started my program. it updates nightly so it has up to date info in it.

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