hmarchesano

Thank you so much for posting all this information! The PDF file has been soooo helpful! I took the Kaplan review course, but still had lots of questions and your document simplifies alot of the information and makes it much easier to remember. I took the nclex-rn exam last week and did not pass. I am altering my studying and keeping positive. Congrats on passing and goodluck with your career as a nurse! :)

Hello! Congrats on beginning nursing school! Besides my med-surg book, I used 3 great books for writing care plans. First is the Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis. Your school probably has this on the required book list. This helps you to identify the exact diagnosis and then you can go from there. The BEST book is called Nursing Care Plans Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes 7th edition by Meg Gulanick and Judith Myers. This book has gotten me through nursing school! It has most all of the diagnoses with expected outcomes, and lots of interventions. I have referred to this book for every care plan I have written. The other book that has been amazing is called: Diseases and Disorders A Nursing Therapeutics Manual 4th edition by Marilyn Sommers. This book covers diseases and disorders and defines them. It includes: the cause, patho., what you should be assessing for, common nursing diagnoses for the illness, collaborative care and interventions, also common lab or diagnostic tests that you would expect to be done for this patient. This is a great resource and will really help you to understand what is going on with your patient. We were required to explain the patho. and plan of care for that day of our patients to our instructor and this book helped me so much to identify specific assessments and needs for that patient. Hope this helps! I am in my last semester of nursing school, I graduate in December 2012. Good luck with your studies and remember you can do it!! Hailey