Reddit reviews Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care

Never heard of such a thing.

I will say this, go ahead and buy some used care plan books off Amazon.

They'll make your life a hell of a lot easier.

Also, keep all your care plans saved on your computer in case you need to reference them. That and when you're in your final semester, you'll be able to look at a care plan you wrote in first or second semester and cringe.

Back to the books, here's what I recommend:

About $8 used.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0803630417

And about $6 used.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0323085490

I ended up getting another med-surg and OB/peds book off Amazon too, both for like $10 a pop, because the shit my school gave us was garbage. Don't be afraid to invest in yourself!

this is the book my program recommends for ours. There are many different ones out there, see if you can find a booklist for your program and see which one they recommend (if they do). You'll definitely need it! It's helped me out so much with my careplans. Some of the girls in my classes only rented it and were regretting it. They're planning on buying it now because we need it in our future quarters.

I use Ackley and Ladwig and love it. I have an older edition, pretty sure this is the newest:

http://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Diagnosis-Handbook-Evidence-Based-Planning/dp/0323085490/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417655734&sr=8-1&keywords=ackley+and+ladwig+nursing+diagnosis+handbook

My school had us buy the Swearingen All in One and it was beyond useless. I ended up getting a copy of the Ackley & Ladwig book, and it was really useful to me. I see not everyone agrees with that, but I guess everything is YMMV. What I like about A&L is that the front half of the book is a list of conditions with possible nursing dx (i.e. you might look up "cystic fibrosis" and find dxes of ineffective airway clearance, impaired gas exchange, etc.) and then the back of the book was just nursing diagnoses in alphabetical order, with indications, outcomes, and interventions. So if you had looked up CF in the front of the book and wanted to write a care plan about ineffective airway clearance, you'd flip to the ineffective airway clearance section in the back and just pick out however many interventions you need.

Edit: a word