books on how to do careplan

Sure, there are lots of them, and your program will put at least one on your bookstore list. All are based on the mother lode, which you should get whether they remember to put it on the bookstore list or not. Regardless of what your other books say, to make a nursing diagnosis, you must be able to demonstrate at least one "defining characteristic" and related (causation) factor.

Defining characteristics and related factors for all approved nursing diagnoses are found in the NANDA-I 2012-2014 (current edition). $29 paperback, $23 for your Kindle at Amazon, free 2-day delivery for students. NEVER make an error about this---and, as a bonus, be able to defend appropriate use of medical diagnoses as related factors to your faculty. Won't they be surprised! (Yes, some will.)

If you do not have the NANDA-I 2012-2014, you are cheating yourself out of the best reference for this you could have. I don’t care if your faculty forgot to put it on the reading list. Get it now.

When you get it out of the box, first put little sticky tabs on the sections:

1, health promotion (teaching, immunization....)

2, nutrition (ingestion, metabolism, hydration....)

3, elimination and exchange (this is where you'll find bowel, bladder, renal, pulmonary...)

4, activity and rest (sleep, activity/exercise, cardiovascular and pulmonary tolerance, self-care and neglect...)

5, perception and cognition (attention, orientation, cognition, communication...)

6, self-perception (hopelessness, loneliness, self-esteem, body image...)

7, role (family relationships, parenting, social interaction...)

8, sexuality (dysfunction, ineffective pattern, reproduction, childbearing process, maternal-fetal dyad...)

9, coping and stress (post-trauma responses, coping responses, anxiety, denial, grief, powerlessness, sorrow...)

10, life principles (hope, spiritual, decisional conflict, nonadherence...)

11, safety (this is where you'll find your wound stuff, shock, infection, tissue integrity, dry eye, positioning injury, SIDS, trauma, violence, self mutilization...)

12, comfort (physical, environmental, social...)

13, growth and development (disproportionate, delayed...)

Now, if you are ever tempted to make a diagnosis first and cram facts into it second (most students do this, but not you!), at least go to the section where you think your diagnosis may lie and look at the table of contents at the beginning of it. Something look tempting? Look it up and see if the defining characteristics match your assessment findings. If so... there's a match. If not... keep looking. Eventually you will find it easier to do it the other way round, but this is as good a way as any to start getting familiar with THE reference for the professional nurse.

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 10e: Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN: 9780323085496: Amazon.com: Books

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 6e (NURSING INTERVENTION CLASSIFICATION ( NIC)): Gloria M. Bulechek PhD RN FAAN, Howard K. Butcher PhD RN PMHCNS-BC, Joanne M. McCloskey Dochterman PhD RN FAAN, Cheryl Wagner RN PhD MBA/MSN: 9780323100113:

Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Measurement of Health Outcomes, 5e: Sue Moorhead PhD RN, Marion Johnson PhD RN, Meridean L. Maas PhD RN FAAN, Elizabeth Swanson PhD RN: 9780323100106: Amazon.com: Books

Amazon.com: NOC and NIC Linkages to NANDA-I and Clinical Conditions: Supporting Critical Reasoning and Quality Care, 3e (NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages) (9780323077033): Marion Johnson PhD RN, Sue Moorhead PhD RN, Gloria M. Bulechek PhD RN FAAN, Howard

NIC, NOC, & NANDA, plus the NURSING DIAGNOSIS HANDBOOK...

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 10e: Betty J. Ackley MSN EdS RN, Gail B. Ladwig MSN RN: 9780323085496: Amazon.com: Books

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 6e (NURSING INTERVENTION CLASSIFICATION ( NIC)): Gloria M. Bulechek PhD RN FAAN, Howard K. Butcher PhD RN PMHCNS-BC, Joanne M. McCloskey Dochterman PhD RN FAAN, Cheryl Wagner RN PhD MBA/MSN: 9780323100113:

Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC): Measurement of Health Outcomes, 5e: Sue Moorhead PhD RN, Marion Johnson PhD RN, Meridean L. Maas PhD RN FAAN, Elizabeth Swanson PhD RN: 9780323100106: Amazon.com: Books

Amazon.com: NOC and NIC Linkages to NANDA-I and Clinical Conditions: Supporting Critical Reasoning and Quality Care, 3e (NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages) (9780323077033): Marion Johnson PhD RN, Sue Moorhead PhD RN, Gloria M. Bulechek PhD RN FAAN, Howard

NIC, NOC, & NANDA, plus the NURSING DIAGNOSIS HANDBOOK...

The first link, to the Ackley one is the book my school uses. I hate care plans, but the book was pretty good.