recommend me a good nursing care plan book with interventions-rationales...

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I have a care plan due in a few weeks and another next month. and from what i read we have to write a lot of objectives and interventions for each nursing diagnosis alone. and there are 6 diagnosis for each CP.

and so i am looking for a nursing care plan book w/ diagnosis, that has goals, objectives, nursing internventions-rationales. i'm not sure which book is good, but i am looking at this one:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0323016278/qid=1078601096/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-3481212-9667310

any other books that you would recommened is appreciated.

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Specializes in LTC, ER.

the nursing care plan book that i have been using is the "Nursing Diagnosis Handbook" 5th or 6th ed, by Ackley & Ladwig (ISBN #0-323-01459-3). i think it is pretty good, it has a rationale for every intervention so you don't have to do too much searching for them.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I'd go with Carpenito's Nursing Diagnosis, 9th edition. I also have the Ackley and Ludwig but they didn't have the interventions in it.

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I've been very pleased with the Nursing Care Plans book put out by Doenges & Moorhouse. I've always gotten good reviews from my instructors on my care plan. You can do a broader search to find a lower price (a used one, etc.), but even Target has a listing for it:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-4932872-3962525?asin=0803609469

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.

I second cursenurse's recommendation for the Ackley & Ladwig book. I really like the feature in the front of the book where they have a list of medical dx's & then suggested nsg dx's that would be appropriate.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Stepdown.

Our program uses the Ackley book also. It's very easy to use too.

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Fa davis nursing careplans 6ed is great. I save huge amounts of time by doing mine in an excel spread sheet. That way when you have to redo it allyou have to do is change your mistakes and when its aproved you save it to your harddrive and a floppy disk for backup. then the next time you have a care plan for risk for infection r/t invasive procedure just open it up and change you subjective and objective data and fine tune it for that pt's. my first set of 4 care plans took 12 hours to complete my second set of 4 took 2hrs. Not to mention that the instructers appreciate the neat and easy to read careplan.

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I'd go with Carpenito's Nursing Diagnosis, 9th edition. I also have the Ackley and Ludwig but they didn't have the interventions in it.

Is your Ackley and Ladwig the 6th edition? Because I'm looking at mine and it has tons of interventions. This book is fantastic and was recommended by our instructors.

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.

Carpenito's is real good, but I think the one I like better is Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual by Sparks & Taylor, published by Springhouse. I used it through nursing school and never got below a 98% on any of my careplans.

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Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

My vote is for the Ackley 6th Edition Nursing Diagnosis Handbook too. Our school lists Carpenito's as the required text but most of the students I know like my Ackley book better. The use of medical diagnoses as the starting point really makes short work of the nursing process.

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Specializes in Home Health, Primary Care.

I'm with TraumaRUs....I use Carpenito, 10th Ed. That's the one on my school's list.

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