Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes

Amazing .. helping me in clinical as a rational and breakdowns of NANDAS. I wish I got sooner.

I didn't find this book until my last semester of nursing school and I desperately wish I'd had it from day one. Not only does this help you learn to develop the big picture of any nursing diagnosis, but seeing the interventions and assessments helps you remember it for future use! The rationales were insanely helpful and included evidence-based information as well.

I've only had this book for about a week, but it's definitely better than any of the other care plan/NANDA books that I've used before. It breaks down care plans into medical type diagnoses, which is very handy. The interventions and rationales are the best part of this book. I've found it very easy to use, and I would highly recommend it. If you're a nursing student working on a lot of care maps/plans, you will not regret buying this book.

We had a bunch of care plans due this quarter and since we hadn't actually been taught how to write one (I'm serious), I made this purchase based on a few recommendations. I would have failed my clinicals without this. It's so helpful with definitions, accurate descriptions, evidence based rationales, comordities, pathologies, you name it. If you need a full break down, I highly recommend. The care plans are based on NANDA criteria, and if it is not NANDA based best practice, the plan will say so. Also, since we are no longer allowed to making official nursing diagnosis, this is double helpful because it was published before that decision, so the rationale behind the diagnosis is a great breakdown for struggling students or students with no nursing background.

I am giving this 4 stars because I stupidly didn’t pay attention to the fact that some of the care plan diagnoses were not NANDA-I. I feel like most nursing students will feel my pain at doing care plans late into the night and not always noticing little details (like the missing NANDA-I mark over Dx). I almost failed a clinical day because I used a non-NANDA Dx in my paperwork. Now that I have looked back and figured out what I did wrong, I see that they are labeled when they are NANDA. I just think it would be better if there was some kind of marking to draw attention of sleep-deprived nursing students to the fact that certain ones are not NANDA approved. Other than that, the book has been a great resource thus far (4 weeks into second semester of nursing school) and I don’t foresee myself ever not using it during my academic career.So, warning to all, while this book has great information and has been very useful, you just have to pay attention.

I’m in nursing school I’ll use it alot

I am currently in my second to last semester of nursing school and this book has saved my life. My program made me buy the Ackley book but this book is worlds better! It clearly gives you related to factors that fit the NANDA nursing diagnosis, as well as specific interventions when writing smart goals. It will give you plenty of action, assess and teach interventions to make your smart goals a breeze. Buy this book. With the Ackely book my care plans took roughly 10 hours to complete. With this book I'm down to 6 hours. It's worth the money.

This book helps me understand care plans and I had a hard time at first. It made me understand it more then my own instructor but For the most part, the care plans are in depth and it’s perfect. You get your critical thinking going and it gets better the more you read and you learn more within it. It’s set up perfect and nicely spaced so it’s not a jumble of words.