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All-in-One Care Planning Resource: Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans (All-In-One Care Planning Resource: Med-Surg, Peds, Maternity, & Psychiatric Nursing)

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If anyone has had as much difficulty finding the perfect book as I have, they know whats up. So I literally spent 20 hours of research searching for the PERFECT care plan book. After my exhaustive study, I found this little dream of a book!! So why this one?? I chose this book because it gives you EVERYTHING you need to create an A+++ care plan. It includes disease processes, the nursing diagnosis related to the said medical condition, outcomes, and the best part- it includes both interventions with ALL the scientific rationales in an easy to read and fluent manner that makes writing up those dreaded care plans a breeze!! I would strongly recommend this book due to it's all inclusive style and really mean it when I say "This is the best care plan book ever". I bought the 2nd edition which was way cheaper than the newer version for pennies on the dollar and it is just as good as the one's my friends bought for $50 dollars. It's a must have and can be used for all area's of study as it includes Med Surg, Psych, Peds, and OB sections, so you can literally use it all through school!! I am thrilled and I usually don't leave reviews but I hope you take my word that this book is a MUST HAVE!! :)

K.C.
BSN Student

This book is fantastic for nursing students. In one volume, you have a resource for med/surg, peds, L&D and psych care plans. This makes it an economical and well-rounded textbook choice. The text is well organized and accessible. Each of the four major sections highlights specific medical diagnoses, with information about the pathophysiology of the diagnosis. It details appropriate nursing diagnoses associated with each of the medical diagnoses and includes a wealth of patient education, interventions, important assessments and tests based on the latest evidence-based practice. It also includes measurable outcomes! The book is easy to use. The color coding is simple. The index is complete. And it includes NIC and NOC outcomes and uses NANDA terminology. This book helped me create successful care plans as well as allowing me to more easily carry theory into my clinical practice as a nursing student. I highly recommend it as a resource.

This Nursing Care Plan book sucks. I bought this because the reviews were good but I have no idea why! There are limited care plans in here. I thought there would be a wide aray but that's not the case. The diagnoses I had to do weren't even in here for the particular disease process. A better recommendation is "A nursing handbook" by Betty Ackley & Gail Ladwig (8th edition)

I very much enjoyed using this book as a resource in researching NANDA's and creating interventions. The section I used mostly was the Med-Surg. I found it to be easy to navigate, easy to read, make sense interventions, and and exactly citable evidence based resource for rational reasons.

Bought this book due to a recommendation of a fellow student. It makes laying out a basic care plan very simple. It is easy to follow and is well laid out. It really helped put things together for me.... I use it in conjunction with my Ackley & Ladwig NANDA CP Book. Kind of wish our school suggested this book for starting out... but I did think it was funny, after buying it, I asked our librarian about it, she goes over to the shelf, and our school has a copy.

The most amazing nursing care plan book out there! All topics from Med surg, maternity, surg, mental health, you name it! Always got 100's on my care plans with the help of this book while everyone else struggled with their time & grades. If you're in nursing school, MUST HAVE!

Great book, wonderful resource for those many late nights nursing students put in for their clinical preps. Helps you put the whole picture together! Would highly recommend to other nursing students and even seasoned RNS as you can never have enough resources!

This book was ok. It does cover all subjects in nursing school, but the interventions and rationales were not really what my instructors wanted. This is the book that was required by my school and I got it, but half way through my first semester I ended up buying another care plan book by ackley and ladwig and then my grades on careplans went up exponentially. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

I bought this book to help write care plans for pediatrics. It is a pretty good book and very easy to use. The pathophysiology in the book is pretty simple so I had to use other resources for that. I found repeating interventions with repeating rational for several of the peds careplans. It did save me time from searching peer reviewed rational specific to pediatrics. I would recommend the book as a source but it probably isn't going to help you write your entire careplan. I hope to be able to use again for mental health careplans.

this helped me a good bit with careplans, but it could have a little more info. I had to purchase a second careplan book to supplement this one.