Care plans books or websites? Any Info? Gateway Banner Student

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Does anyone have good recommendations for care plan books or websites?

Something good with no fluff. Just all the info you need. And lots of it?

Azscot

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you don't like the one banner gave ya? i find that one has EVERYTHING

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

there are two websites that have limited access to nursing diagnosis pages from the commercial books that are published:

while they are care plan constructors, they each have 50-75 nursing diagnosis pages from the books that they come from. each nursing diagnosis page includes the nanda information, noc outcomes, and nic interventions.

i use a number of books for answering care plan questions on the student forums of allnurses. there are two that i use consistently:

  • nanda-i nursing diagnoses: definitions & classification 2007-2008 published by nanda international - this is the bare bone nanda taxonomy and does not contain any nursing interventions or outcomes
  • nursing diagnosis handbook: a guide to planning care, 7th edition, by betty j. ackley and gail b. ladwig.

some advice: while it is nice to have care plan books to help out, you really should concentrate on knowing what the nursing process (problem solving process) is, it's five steps and how to do them. there was just a question on the student forums where a student couldn't find a care plan in her care plan books for a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome--and, you won't find something like that in a care plan book. so, you have to know how to do a customized care plan in a case like that. if you don't know and understand how the nursing process works, then you're screwed and no care plan book in the world is going to help you except maybe if you read the first chapter of it where, surprise!, it describes the nursing process.

  1. assessment (collect data from medical record and by doing a physical assessment of the patient)
  2. nursing diagnosis (make a list of the abnormal assessment data, match your abnormal assessment data to likely nursing diagnoses, decide on the nursing diagnosis to use)
  3. planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)
  4. implementation (initiate the care plan)
  5. evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)

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Thanks Cursed Irishmman. Hope classes are going well for you.

But which book is it you refer to? Are you talking about the "Nursing Diagnosis Handbook?" by Ackley/Ladwig.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care, 7th Edition, by Betty J. Ackley and Gail B. Ladwig. This is exactly as the title appears on the front of the book, dude! I hear there is an 8th edition due to come out soon.

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The ackley book is what they gave my cohort (8th edition), its blue w/ a green band on it ....just look up the disease/problem in the first few pages and it gives a couple suggested nursing diagnoses comlete w/ statements...then go to those diagnoses and pick/choose the ones you used during clinicals, its that simple.

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