Reddit reviews Nursing Care Plans: Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span (Nursing Care Plans (Doenges))

Y'all do realize that there are countless numbers of care plan textbooks on Amazon you can get used for less than $10, right? They saved my ass in nursing school. Let me find the two I like. Hold on.

EDIT: Here's one. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0803622104/ref=sr_1_14_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1543618007&sr=8-14&keywords=nursing+care+plans

EDIT: Here's the other. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0323071503/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

EDIT: And no, I don't advocate copy/pasting. But sometimes you just need a nudge in the right direction, and these books do a great job at that. Like everyone here says, you'll never, ever, EVER use care plans after you leave school.

I have 2 care plan books and I have used them all the way through clinicals (I'm just finishing up my last semester and getting ready to start my preceptorship).

I would HIGHLY recommend a care plan book, they have help me immensely. Our instructors have us do a major care plan at least once per semester. When it's all typed up it ends up being about 20 pages or so. We are required to have numerous interventions and rationales for those interventions. It would be 10 times harder to do that without a good care plan book.

The ones I have and like a lot:
http://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Care-Plans-Guidelines-Individualizing/dp/0803622104

http://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Diagnosis-Handbook-Guide-Planning/dp/0323036643

Hopefully this helps you out a bit.

I would probably pick one of the conditions, whichever one is the priority which will be the cardiac one.

Do you have a nursing diagnosis/care plan book? I use Davis's Nursing Care Plans:Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span.

For HF, nursing diagnosis can be:

Decreased cardiac output related to altered myocardial contractility as evidenced by increased heart rate, dysrhythmias, ECG changes (or whatever changes they may be experiencing)

Activity intolerance related to imbalance between oxygen supply and demand as evidenced by weakness and fatigue

Usually nursing diagnosis are by priority, so obviously anything dealing with the airway or circulation would be the most important to make a diagnosis for. :)

Here are some links for the product in the above comment for different countries:

Smile Link: Davis's Nursing Care Plans:Guidelines for Individualizing Client Care Across the Life Span.


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|UK|amazon.co.uk|
|Spain|amazon.es|
|France|amazon.fr|
|Germany|amazon.de|
|Japan|amazon.co.jp|
|Canada|amazon.ca|
|Italy|amazon.it|
|China|amazon.cn|




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