Care Plans-Any good books/websites for them

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Okie, for my end of year exam I have to write up care plans. I am okie at them, but the only problem is that it needs to be "Evidence based".

I can have 10 references written down that I can take into the exam and was wondering if anyone can reccomand good books about care plans to me?..

I got some about "Ropers ADL" and "surgery post op care".

Thank you.

Oh and the patients are random, so it could be about pain to Parkinson's.:eek:

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Specializes in Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology..

Move to UK forum for more specific advice on care plans.

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Specializes in ICU.
Okie, for my end of year exam I have to write up care plans. I am okie at them, but the only problem is that it needs to be "Evidence based".

I can have 10 references written down that I can take into the exam and was wondering if anyone can reccomand good books about care plans to me?..

I got some about "Ropers ADL" and "surgery post op care".

Thank you.

Oh and the patients are random, so it could be about pain to Parkinson's.:eek:

As a student I had an exam on care planning and we had to use a model - I played safe and used the Roper ADL. We were expected to use another model to compare/contrast/critique whatever.

Where I work we use Care Bundles which are evidence based. If you PM me I can give you some info if it would help.

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The only book that stands out in my mind is Carpenito. I don't know if that would be good for the UK though.

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Specializes in Cardiolgy.

A good book that looks at a lot of different models of Care, is Nursing Models for Practice, by Pearson, Vaughan and Fiztgerald.

It looks at the evidence behing care plans, and discusses most of the 'big' names, such as RLT and Orem's model of care.

I also used Royal Marsden, when writing about care plans as they talk about method and rationale,- very easy to link theory to practice.

Another great book, is Nursing practice: hospital and home. But this book is huge ( and very expensive, if your library does not have it) but would provide rationale not just on care planning but background information and teaching as well.

Hope these help :)

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Hi you could also refrence your policies and procedures ,Essence of care and guidelines local or national . Good luck

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