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)

by Pamela L. Swearingen

Book Overview

862 pagesClinical experts update each subject area to ensure the most current, accurate, and clinically relevant content available.Each care plan employs a consistent format of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323044166
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great for nursing students!

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.

Highly Recommended!

My instructor suggested I get All-in-One because it will serve me through my rotations (Med-Surg, Peds, OB and Psych.) I love this book! It is so much better than the one we were required to buy. It is the only care plan book I've seen that gives measurable outcomes, which are so helpful in practice, not just in writing the plans. The rationales are detailed and easy to understand, and I quickly find what I am looking for. Highly recommended!

Kiss your NANDA stress away!

I've got to say I love the way this book was organized. It goes from clinical areas (MEDSURG, OB, PEDs,etc.) to body systems (GI, neuro,etc.) to disease/condtions to NANDAs r/t to the cause (also pertinent interventions/rationales/lab values). Highly recommended to those who do not want to pull all nighters to finish their care plans or carry numerous expensive books with information you may never use. Instead zip through them like pros and only have one great book at hand!

Excellent

I reviewed 4 different Nursing care plan books; overall, this one is the best and clearest. I would highly recommend this one over others. It is the only one that clearly articulates, NUMERICALLY, what a nursing goal should aim to achieve so you can actually MEASURE if your interventions were successful. Oh..and it really is easy to read.

Best Care planning book for nursing students

This is the best book I've found to do those pain-staking care plans when I was in Nursing school. Info is easy to find & the interventions & rationals are short & sweet:)