Resources ??

[eljamstudent]

We are required to buy Nursing pocket guide: diagnosis..etc. While its not that expensive, I keep reading that it does not supply enough rationales for care planning.

Does anyone have a suggestion to a good care plan resource that I can use in conjunction with this?

Thanks

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

i'm not sure what this product is that you have mentioned, but i do know that many students are always looking for some kind of reference that will give them suggested nursing diagnoses for the medical diagnoses or medical conditions that patients have. a good many of the posts on the nursing student forums is to ask for suggestions for nursing diagnoses for a patient with some particular medical diagnosis or condition. i disagree with care planning being done that way, but apparently many programs must teach it that way and many nursing care plan books are set up that way. nursing diagnosis handbook: a guide to planning care by betty j. ackley and gail b. ladwig, whatever the current edition is being published, has this type of cross index in it. the cross index is about 75 pages long. you find a medical diagnosis in this alphabetized index and it gives you a listing of possible nursing diagnoses that would be suitable to use. the other 1200 pages of the book are the actual 180+ nursing diagnoses, their nanda taxonomy information, suggested outcomes and suggestions for interventions with evidenced based rationales. i have heard that there is a nursing care plan book out there that has a similar cross index in it, but i do not know the name of it and have not see it. nurse's 5-minute clinical consult: diseases from lippincott williams & wilkins is a book that has over 400 medical diseases listed in it and has nursing diagnoses listed for each disease as well, but no nursing interventions.

[tiggerdagibit]

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care by Betty J. Ackley and Gail B. Ladwig

I have this book and love it! It's very helpful when filling out careplans. I don't know what I'd do without it. lol It has a lot of interventions with rationales. Just remember to personalize them to your patient.

I also have Nursing Care Plans by Gulanick/Myers. I sometimes use it in addition to the other one.